These are the 126 men and 2 women featured in the book
Diggers. They enlisted with the Australia Imperial Force to fight in World War I. One hundred and ten served overseas in Gallipoli, the Middle East and on the Western Front.…
Sunday, May 27th, 2018 at 11:44 am | RSS 2.0 | Readers Hub | By Kay
It is fitting, perhaps, that a small cemetery in a corner of the Fromelles battlefield should be the final resting place of 211 recently identified Australian soldiers. It is a reminder that today, a hundred years after the bloody battle of Fromelles, there are still eleven hundred plus Diggers offi…
Thursday, July 21st, 2016 at 8:49 am | RSS 2.0 | Readers Hub | By Kay
Roland Sherwin was eighteen years old when he enlisted in February 1915. He was appointed to the 7
th Light Horse and landed at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli on 24
th October. He told of his experience at Gallipoli in a letter to his father, dated 28
th December 1915. (The lett…
Sunday, May 1st, 2016 at 6:41 am | RSS 2.0 | Readers Hub | By Kay
In December 1915 the Allies finally realised that they could not defeat the Turks on the Gallipoli Peninsular so, they quietly left. Of the evacuation Richard Bassett wrote-
“
The afternoon before leaving Gallipoli I was passing one of the cemeteries, and I saw a chaplain busily engaged in a… Sunday, May 1st, 2016 at 6:38 am | RSS 2.0 | Readers Hub | By Kay
Those in the 8
th Battalion did not form part of the attack on Lone Pine. Rather they held the line of trench further north towards Johnston’s Jolly. They continuously fired on the Turkish trenches opposite to deflect their interest from the attack at Lone Pine. For a day and a night, th…
Sunday, May 1st, 2016 at 6:30 am | RSS 2.0 | Readers Hub | By Kay
When young Australians first set foot on the Gallipoli Peninsular they were full of enthusiasm. They had a real sense of adventure. By July this had changed. Now the War was just work that had to be done. In July this is the reality of Richard Bassett
On 29
th July he wrote –
Sunday, May 1st, 2016 at 6:27 am | RSS 2.0 | Readers Hub | By Kay
Richard Bassett served with the 8
th Battalion at Gallipoli. He was born in Colac, Victoria in 1887. He enlisted in 1914 and wrote many letters home from Gallipoli. These were posted in the Colac Reformer. These are some of the extracts.
“I have been having a g… Thursday, April 28th, 2016 at 9:41 am | RSS 2.0 | Readers Hub | By Kay
On 25
th April 1916 the first Anzac Day was held. As Australian forces began to arrive in France, to begin their three years of horror on the Western Front, those at home came together to remember the events of 1915 at Gallipoli. Newspaper reports, long lists of casualties and espe…
Thursday, April 28th, 2016 at 9:34 am | RSS 2.0 | Readers Hub | By Kay
Today a new book for teens & tweens is featured on this website. Set around 1860,
Escaping the Triad it is the story of a young man who escape…
Monday, December 23rd, 2013 at 7:20 am | RSS 2.0 | Writers Hub | By Kay
Today the biography of another soldier awarded a military medal in World War I has been added to this webpage. Sergeant George Abraham was lucky to survive the war; he was shot, gassed and suffered from Gonorrhoea. His story is featured because, he was gassed by friendly fire and because venereal di…
Thursday, November 28th, 2013 at 7:12 am | RSS 2.0 | Writers Hub | By Kay