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065: September 2002
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070: April 2004
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Lieutenant Martin’s Letters: F.W.S. Martin, M.M., an Anzac in the Great War
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Reviewed by R. Buckley, B.A., Ph. D. Cantab. Lieutenant Fred Martin, M.M., the author’s uncle, was born in Queensland in 1895. He died at Polygon Wood, September 20th, 1917. Training as a teacher when war broke out, Martin was a fine writer whose wartime letters to his family bring images and characters vividly to life and throw light on contemp...
SPECIAL OFFER: 'Two Sides of the Same Wrong Penny: Gallipoli and the Western Front: A comparison' edited by Michael LoCicero with contributions from Gary Sheffield, Stephen Chambers and others.
Announcing the launch of the Western Front Association / Helion publication: Two Sides of the Same Wrong Penny: Gallipoli and the Western Front, A Comparison The year 1915 saw the BEF severely challenged on the Western Front. Recovering from the loss of the majority of experienced regulars in 1914, a largely new army had to come to terms with t...
New Year's Day 1915: The unknown 'Battle of Broken Hill'
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Whilst the vast majority of First World War actions took place in France and Belgium, there were other theatres of war in which British and Commonwealth soldiers and sailors fought. These so called ‘side shows’ in obscure theatres of war took place in many different countries, from Turkey (the Gallipoli Campaign) to off the coast of Chile (the B...
108: January 2017
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26 May 1918: Pte William James Archbold
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William James Archbold was born in Mackay, Queensland in January 1898. A farmer, he enlisted, aged 18 into the Australian Imperial Force on 21 February 1916 and embarked from Sydney (for the UK) on 22 December the same year. Training in the UK at Codford and Bulford, he spent a month in Parkhouse Military Hospital, Bulford. He underwent Field Pu...
20 July 1916 : Pte. Alexander McGregor McKenzie
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Born at Talia, South Australia on 11 January 1891, Alexander was a farmer. He enlisted at Keswick, South Australia on 7 May 1915 and embarked on overseas service from Adelaide aboard HMAT Kanowna on 23 June 1915. After serving at Gallipoli with the 27th Bn AIF from September 1915, Alexander moved to Egypt. After a period of illness, he transfe...
16 January : '"An elegy of mud, blood and darkness" : Australian war writing and the third battle of Ypres’ with Matt Haultain-Gall
‘The year 1917 had been one of disaster for our arms in all save the Messines attack’ wrote the Australian ex-serviceman G.D. Mitchell in Backs to the Wall. Few of his comrades would have disagreed. The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) lost far more men in the battles for Bullecourt (France), Messines and Passchendaele than at their 1915 baptism...
22 June 1918 : Pte A P Edwards MM
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Allan Parish Edwards was a sheep shearer before the war He was 32 years old when he enlisted in the 13th Reinforcements to the 3rd Battalion on 28 September 1915. On arrival in Egypt in early 1916 he was in hospital before being moved to England, where he spent some time in the AIF Cyclist Training Battalion before joining the 2nd Battalion in...
The Wood Brothers of Stacksteads, Lancashire
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Back in 2014, I was helping to plan my brother's stag party. We planned to go to Ypres to visit many of the First World War sites and particularly the Menin Gate. It dawned on me that once there, as a group, we would wonder how many of our fellow Townspeople of Clitheroe were commemorated on Menin Gate and Tyne Cot Memorials. I did some research...
2 August 1916 : 292 L/Cpl Stephen Henry (Harry) Horrocks
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Stephen Henry Horrocks was born 13 September 1888, Wigan, Lancashire Known as Harry, he was the son of Henry Horrocks and Mary Ann. The family emigrated from Lancashire to Australia and lived at Palmyra, Forrest Street, Freemantle in Western Australia where Harry was a mill hand before the war. He enlisted in Perth on 2 March 1915 and attende...
18 September 1915 : Pte Leslie James Bell
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Leslie Bell was born 26 May 1891 Moama, New South Wales, the sixth child of Alexander Bell, a mounted Police Constable and Margaret (neé Murphy), his second wife, who bore three of his children. He attended Moama Public School, and was then apprenticed as a blacksmith which he did for two years before becoming an assistant surveyor. At the time...
John Christie Wright - Artist and Sculptor
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Behind every name on a war memorial there is a story, but that of John Christie Wright, commemorated on the Rothiemay War Memorial – a small community in what was formerly Banffshire – is particularly remarkable. Above: Rothiemay war memorial (c) Moray Council 2021 John Christie Wright was born in Aberdeen on 22 August 1889, the son of Moses,...
ONLINE - Discipline within the AIF on the Western Front by Greg Stephens
Greg’s presentation explores why the Australians had the worst discipline record in the British Army during the First World War. He will discuss the roots and causes of poor discipline within the AIF, comparisons with other countries, and importantly whether this issue had any impact on their ability to be an effective fighting force. At the hea...
Cecil Patrick Healy: the only Australian Olympic Gold medalist to die in war KIA 29 August 1918.
Cecil Patrick Healy - the only Australian Olympic Gold medalist to die in war – was a prominent figure in the swimming world in Australia and beyond, for more than 15 years. An early proponent of the new crawl stroke and the side breathing technique, he contributed articles to the press about swimming and surf-bathing. Above: Cecil Healy pictur...
Members' Afternoon 2023
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Our annual Members' Afternoon will be on Sunday, 8th January 2023 at 14.00. A selection of talks has been offered by members and it includes: Ross Beadle - 'Who killed Captain Duncan Martin? 9th Devons on 1st July 1916 – Plasticine models, poets, ‘lions led by donkeys’…and all that’ Paul Cobb - 'Repairs and Replacements - the AIF process for ma...
'Fred Birks VC' with Tony Griffiths
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Historian Tony Griffiths will tell the story of Welsh born Fred Birks who served with the Australian Imperial Force. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Battle of Passchendaele on the 20th September 1917. A video will accompany his talk. Doors open at 1.30pm for a 2pm start. Non members very welcome.
'Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Gordon Carter, DSO Pioneer Battalion Commander on the Western Front' by William Westerman
Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Gordon Carter, DSO Pioneer Battalion Commander on the Western Front by William Westerman (Originally published on Stand To! No.117 February, 2020). Made freely available as key material for the online course The Imperial Western Front created in conjunction with the University of Kent). In March 1916, the Australian Im...
Tanks at Bullecourt
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Our speaker at the November 2024 meeting will be local member David Brown who will share the output of his scholarly work on Tanks at Bullecourt. The fighting at Bullecourt in 1917 has been explored by various historians with some very good works available but the battles contained controversial elements such as the performance of the tanks. Var...
'Insane – a legacy of three years’ service’ by Richard Crompton
For our February branch meeting, local member Richard Crompton will turn our attention to the Australian Imperial Force and the long-term consequences of the war in his talk ‘Insane – a legacy of three years’ service’. This account examines the war of Tom Blackman, as a stretcher-bearer on Gallipoli and as a line officer at the Battle of Polygon...