Aftermaths
Kathleen Skinner and James Agnew
After the First World War, around 15,000 European women, the vast majority British, married Australian soldiers. They boarded the troopships that carried these men to war and made… » read more
All that crying
Rigney Brothers
We don’t know why Rufus and Cyril Rigney, Ngarrindjeri men from the Port Macleay Mission, chose to join up. Perhaps it was the hope of something better than toiling on a farm;… » read more
Asleep in the deep
Gordon Corbould
Leading Seaman Gordon Corbould was the first and only son of Ernst and Alice Corbould of Epping, New South Wales. He served on the AE1, Australia’s first submarine, and took part… » read more
I seem to dream of blood
Walter Dexter
Walter Dexter was one of twelve Army chaplains charged with the spiritual care of the First AIF. He watched the Gallipoli Landing, but was forbidden to go ashore with the men. He… » read more
Quite a decent type of man
Cornelius Danswan
It was late in the morning when Dr Benjafield, a medical officer assigned to the Repatriation Department in Sydney, finished his examination of Cornelius Danswan. In many ways… » read more
That Australian girl
Lizzie Armstrong
Raised in a comfortably well-off family in Sydney, Lizzie Armstrong was strong, independent and resourceful. Determined to do her bit for the war effort, she sailed to Britain,… » read more
The hands of our own men
Daisy Schoeffel
Daisy Pearse was a fourth generation Australian. She belonged to one of the oldest (white) families in Fremantle and achieved some acclaim as an Australian author. But Daisy… » read more
The man with half a face
Gordon Wallace
Gordon Wallace, a labourer from Warrnambool, enlisted in 1916. A shell tore his face to pieces in the third battle of Ieper. Private Wallace was evacuated from the Belgian… » read more
The name he helped to make
Robert Pennington
Robert Pennington was one of the first men from Western Australia to enlist. At 26, with a black swan tattooed on his upper arm, he farewelled his mother and sailed off to war.… » read more
War Horse
Thomas Goodwin
Thomas Goodwin’s diary is one of the few extended accounts Australian soldiers kept at Helles. Some ten miles south of Anzac, the flat ground of the Peninsula was held by the… » read more
