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Mothers of soldiers photographed at Yacka

Over 60 Yacka men enlisted to serve in the Great War, and 15 did not return, leaving many mothers to grieve.

Mouquet Farm (now Sunflowers Animal Farm) at Margaret River

News of the death of their son and brother Christopher reached the Armstrong family on their farm in Yallingup early in September 1915. He had been shot in the spine at Gallipoli and died in hospital…

Mrs Dalrymple's Dance Music Album at Mandurah

The Mandurah Community Museum has developed around the old Mandurah State Schoolhouse. The main room of little brick building is still furnished as a schoolroom.

Murray VC statue at Evandale

The daring feats of Henry'Harry' William Murray VC, CMG, DSO and Bar, DCM, Croix de Guerre, made him a legend and he remains the most highly decorated soldier to have served in the Australian…

One name on a memorial at Byaduk, Victoria

Few Australian communities have had one of their own immortalised by a statue. The small rural settlement of Byaduk in Victoria can make that claim. Here a'digger' stands on top of a plinth listing…

Order of Service for a war memorial at Echuca

A specially printed order of service for the unveiling of the town's war memorial on Remembrance Day in 1927.

Ore Carriage Memorial and Alma Cowie's grave at Broken Hill

Reminders of confusing wartime event in Broken Hill's history.

Pearling, the Japanese and the Great War in Broome

The Great War slowed and damaged Broome's pearling industry. Before the days of plastic buttons mother of pearl provided a principal raw material for button-making. A world-wide market for pearl…

Peterborough 'Loco' Honour Roll

Prior to the Great War, Peterborough was one of the busiest single-track railways in the world. The locomotive depot worked around the clock, with men employed in all aspects of the rail industry'…

Plaque on the Memorial Hall at Hopetoun

Celebrated Great War veteran Brigadier General and Senator William 'Pompey' Elliot delivered a speech at the opening of the hall in 1923.

Point Nepean Gun Battery at Portsea

Australians fired 'possibly the first shot on either side in the war' from Fort Nepean.

Portland's Anzac Day crosses at Portland

One Australian mother who certainly knew what happened to her son at Gallipoli was Meta Jerrett, of Tyrandarra near Portland, Victoria.

Private Hoskins' Gallipoli sketches at the State Library of NSW

A set of 4 watercolours of Anzac Cove is among the library's collection of soldiers' diaries and other wartime memorabilia.

Queensland Patriotic Fund letter at Cherbourg

A letter shows the commitment the residents of the Barambah Aboriginal Settlement made to Australia's war effort.

Red felt hat at Berry

Foremost among the supporters of the Red Cross Society in Berry, New South Wales, was Ida Lewers, a sister of the local doctor, Thomas Lewers.

Ruins of Legge's house in Canberra

Lieutenant General James Legge built a house on a soldier settlement block near Canberra after the war.

Siblings' postcard at Emita

The Furneaux Group is a cluster of seventy-eight small islands off the north-east coast of Tasmania, at the eastern end of Bass Strait.

Silk postcard collection at Gawler

A set of 10 postcards written by Sergeant Frederick Ayling during the war.

Sister Olivia Lowrey's clock at Stroud

A small 'clock' was given to wartime nurse Olivia Lowrey for the care and kindness shown to her patients.

Sister Robinson exhibition at Corowa

Eva Robinson from Buraja NSW is one of at least three First World War nurses with that name whose lives and careers are recorded in the archives of Australia and Great Britain. Buraja, located in a…

Souvenir of Egypt at Griffith

Egypt was a welcome relief for men of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) arriving there after the tedious sea voyage from Australia or the battlefields of Gallipoli in 1915.

St John's battlefield windows in Canberra

Captain Frederick Greenfield Ward rescured shards of stained glass found in the ruins of churches on the battlefields of the Somme.

St Martin's War Memorial Hospital at Brisbane

Opened in 1922, the hospital was run by a women's religious order to provide free care to veterans.

St Mary's Church and Busselton Memorial Obelisk

St Mary's Church, Busselton, stands just across the road from a tall obelisk raised in 1920 to carry the names of local people who had died in the Great War.

St Peter's Church at Badgebup

On 16 August 1918, just three months before the Armistice of 11 November, John Campbell Dale Warren was killed instantly when a German shell penetrated the Battalion Orderly Room in the basement of a…

Stirling East School Honour Roll

A community memorial was unveiled amid anti-German sentiments as many nearby townships changed their German names.

Submarines in the park at Holbrook

This inland town celebrates its wartime heritage through naval memorabilia from the Great War.

Tomb of General Bridges in Canberra

the grave of the first commandant of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, lies on Mt Pleasant, overlooking the college.

Tubb's Hill and Maygar's Hill at Euroa

Two hills and the Avenue of Honour commemorate men from the district who were awarded a Victoria Cross for gallantry.

Turriff War Memorial

Sister Katherine 'Kitty' McArthur is commemorated on the new war memorial under the names of three of her brothers.

Tyrendarra Soldiers War Memorial Hall

In July 1914 the people of the small rural settlement of Tyrendarra, Victoria, situated between Port Fairy and Portland in the state's south west, were proud of their new hall.

VC Park and Memorial Avenue at Euroa

Three men of the Euroa are commemorated in statues and information panels ; each of them was awarded the Victoria Cross (VC).

War Memorial and Palace Hotel at Wagin

Jack Joyce, a drover from Wolverhampton in England, was working in Western Australia in the years before the war, driving flocks of sheep in the wheat-belt. He enlisted on 21 July 1915, but when…

Warry Bugle at Maryborough

The Maryborough Military & Colonial Museum has on display a war relic with an interesting provenance. The silver-plated bugle found its way to the battlefields of France and then returned to the…

Wartime letter from Egypt at Nambour

When Charlie Ward received a billy can stuffed with goodies on Christmas Eve 1915, he wrote to thank the donor Mrs Tyrell.

Wreck of the hospital ship SS Maheno at Fraser Island

A ship that served in many roles during the war came to rest in the sands of Fraser Island.

Yass Boys' Comfort Fund 1915-19

The people of Yass sent comfort parcels of chocolate to their local boys at the front.
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