“Mentioned in dispatches”: ways to research your military ancestors
Anzac Day is often a time when people think about the wartime experiences of their ancestors, and may contemplate researching them.
Anzac Day is often a time when people think about the wartime experiences of their ancestors, and may contemplate researching them.
This ANZAC Day we remember some Bendigo soldiers who are included in the Vincent Kelly photographic archive.
‘Pongo’ was a term used by Australian troops in World War One to refer to the common foot soldier of the infantry battalions. The songs, stories, art and verses of the pongos tells us much about the Australian soldiers who fought in the Great War.
The 2015 Don Grant Memorial Lecture was given by Professor Bruce Scates, Chair of History and Australian Studies and Director of the National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University.
Walers became legendary with the Australian Light Horse for their feats of endurance and bravery on the battle field during WWI.
Exhibitions, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
Anna Welch introduces us to some of the great poets of the First World War, currently highlighted in The Mirror of the World exhibition
Some soldiers in Egypt during World War I were so taken by the pyramids, they decided to climb them, with tragic results.