Anzac Centenary
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Questions left unasked
By BRIDGET SCOTT WHEN Beryl Craig reflects on the time she spent with her father, she wished she had asked more. “He didn’t talk…
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The fabulous baker boys
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD THEY were the baker’s boys – eight men employed by local Narre Warren baker Donald Hartley Rowe who all enlisted to…
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Study tour across history
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD THIS month 15-year-old Hayley Hickey stood looking over Anzac Cove and was lost for words. The current Year 10 student from…
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Spirit etched in bronze age
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD NORM Barr’s legacy is attached to each name engraved in the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. The late Narre Warren Rotarian,…
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Sons and daughters of Anzac
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS ENDEAVOUR Hills cenotaph hosted one of its strongest recent turnouts at Wednesday’s Anzac Day service. A 100-strong throng of dignitaries, veterans,…
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Artist goes into action
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD HARKAWAY always served as a constant in the life of nurse Jessie Traill, both before and after her service in World…
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Small stature sapper built to fight above his weight
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS IT WAS no big problem for Hallam-born Sapper John Alfred Brown to convince authorities he could enlist in the Light Horse…
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Diggers came from far and wide
WHEN he died at his Cranbourne home in 1963, Gallipoli veteran Jack Telling was surrounded by “many old Diggers and Gippsland friends” according to…
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Pensions for families of the fallen
NEWSPAPERS were key to the recruiting effort in Victoria during World War I. The frontlines in Turkey and Europe needed a continual supply of…
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Words behind the loss
By BRIDGET SCOTT NO KNOWN grave – a distressing term used to describe the hundreds of soldiers who fought for their country, yet never…
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Retreat from hell
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD THE appended letter was received by Mr H McCann of Berwick from Private W.V Watson, on the battlefront in WWI, and…
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Families scarred by war’s tragedies
THE scars of the Great War run deep in many families as Dandenong RSL sub-branch president John Wells knows all too well. Mr Wells’s…
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