Four of the six sons of Mary and Thomas Comerford of Young, Boorowa and Cowra enlisted in WW1 and survived to return home. This was so unusual that Comerford Street in Cowra was named after them.

Resting together in the Springvale Cemetery George Creed HOWAT & Ivan James HOWAT

Four siblings from Melbourne, Victoria, all of whom served during the First World War and returned home to Australia.

A sample of a research project dedicated to the memory of the the local men and women who served for their country. All research material uploaded with the consent of Jenni Cotton. Please direct Pro

It was July 29 1916; The Battle in Pozieres had begun only a week before; In No Man’s Land, three men lay dead. One of those men was Private Harold Harry Baker. There is not much known about Harry Ba

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My Grandfather was from a family of seven boys and six girls. The boys worked with their father clearing land and making roads in Castlemaine.They would camp out all week and come home on weekends. Wh

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009501520017&fref=nf War Journal of George Haines. (service number 5558) October 11th 1915. Left port Melbourne HMAT Nestor (15,000 tons at 70) with 2300 tr

The Moreton Bay Regional Council established a project to acknowledge those who served in the Great War and are buried (or otherwise commemorated) in a cemetery within the Region. These men were eith

To many an Australian soldier she was simply ‘the girl with the flags’, but Miss Ethel Campbell was also known as the ‘Angel of Durban’, and by various other monikers. She was born in Scotland in 188

July 2010 saw two European Tours that held great importance for me. Both began their journey in the Netherlands, traveling down through Belgium and France, where they culminated in the city of Paris.

"AN ANZAC'S FAIR." Have I been a soldier long sir? Aye, it seems like twenty years Since we sailed away from Melbourne to the time we took Pozieres. We lobbed at dirty Suez and entrained for Men

This is a group of people who enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force who gave Belgium as their place-of-birth.

These four brothers served together in France Three brother Thomas James Albert (Biz), Edward Wilfred (Wilf) and Frances Hurtle Constable (Hurtle) were killed in action at/near Mouquet Farm, France

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