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Armed forces

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Appin massacre

Bankstown Soldier Settlement Milperra

De Vernicourt, Pierre Lalouette

HMAS Watson

Mackellar, Keith Kinnaird

McGuire, George

O'Connell, Maurice

Recruiting for World War I

Returned Soldiers on the Ultimo Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour

Snapper Island

The Fallen on the Ultimo Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour

The Soldiers Riot of 1916

Transcript: Mr Jack Healy recalls training horses for the army in Liverpool in 1928

Transcript: Mr John Costa recalls his family feeding American Italian soldiers on their Liverpool farm during World War II

Transcript: Mrs Elsie Collimore remembers scenes from the Liverpool soldiers' riot of 1916

Transcript: Mrs Jessie La Trobe describes delivering newspapers to military camps during WWII

Transcript: Mrs Lillian Watson recalls an American Air Force plane crash during World War II

Transcript: Mrs Marjorie Gough knitting for the soldiers in WWI and WWII

Ultimo Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour

Victoria Barracks

War Memorials for World War I

War Memorials for the Sudan and Boer Wars

War Memorials to World War II and later conflicts

Defence Act 1903

Next of Kin Memorial Plaque

Rusty Bugles

Shirase sword

Ultimo Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour

Voluntary Workers (Soldiers' Holdings) Act 1917

All Saints' Air Force Memorial Church West Lindfield

Bantry Bay Explosives Magazine Complex

Bardia Barracks

Gallipoli Club

Royal NSW Lancers' Memorial Museum

Conscription referendum 1916

Conscription referendum 1917

Rum Rebellion 1808-09

Soldiers' riot 1916

1st New South Wales Mounted Rifles

33rd Infantry Regiment

39th Regiment of Foot (Dorsetshire)

40th Regiment

4th/3rd Battalion, Royal New South Wales Regiment

73rd Regiment

80th Regiment of Foot (Staffordshire Volunteers)

Australian Army Nursing Service

Australian Army Reserve

Australian Imperial Force 2nd Battalion

Australian Naval Cadets

Australian Navy Cadets

Booker T Washington Club

Commonwealth Rehabilitation Training Scheme

Concord Repatriation General Hospital

Dee Why RSL club

Duke of Edinburgh's Highland Brigade

Eastern Command Training School

Epping Returned Services League Club

First Australian Imperial Force

Kirribilli Club

Korean Vietnam Veterans' Association of Australia

Legacy

Lord Mayor's Patriotic and War Fund of New South Wales

Naval Radar Communications Centre

Navy League Sea Cadet Company

New South Wales Corps

New South Wales Scottish Rifles

New South Wales Torpedo Corps

New South Wales Volunteer Rifles

Parramatta Loyal Association

Parramatta RSL club

Randwick Military Hospital

Returned Soldiers Settlement Scheme

Returned and Services League of Australia

Roseville Memorial Club

Royal Australian Army Medical Corps

Royal Australian Navy Heritage Centre

Royal New South Wales Veteran Corps

School of Artillery

Snapper Island Company

Sydney Loyal Association

Sydney Training Depot

Universal Service League

Veterans' Home of New South Wales

Voluntary Workers Association

War Service Homes Commission (New South Wales)

Abbott, Edward

Archer, Isaac

Asky, Richard

Badcoe, Peter

Baker, Robert Walter

Baxter, Frederick

Bayliss, Joseph

Bower, Arthur

Bridges, William Throsby

Buckley, Thomas

Bull, John Edward

Carlisle, Walter Thomas

Chapple, Reginald Arthur

Chapple, Roland Clyde

Currey, William

Dawe, Charles

De Vernicourt, Pierre Lalouette

Dolan, Sydney Robert

Doling, Albert Edward

Donald, James Shand

Erskine, James

Fanning, Frederick

Farrell, William Thomas

Forsythe, Leonard Edgar

Foster, George Albert

Foveaux, Joseph

Gorman, James

Goulburn, Frederick

Grieve, Gideon James

Griffin, George Allman

Grimes, Charles Robert

Harvie, James Fraser

Harvie, William Coleridge

Henderson, Hugh Jenner

Herring, Sydney

Hill, William 1760-1793

Hobbs, Joseph John Talbot

Hunt, Freeman

Hunt, Joseph

Hunter, John

Innes, Joseph Long

Kellow, Robert

Lambert, George Washington

Lambert, Hugh Robert

Lambert, John Thomas

Lassetter, Henry (Harry) Beauchamp

Lockyer, Edmund

Macarthur, Edward

Macquarie, Lachlan

Maraun, Everett Hugh (Bill)

Marshall, James

Martin, David James

Martindale, BH

McGuire, George

McIntosh, Hector McDonald

McKee, Thomas Henry

McLeod, Stewart Jamieson

McNeill, Albert John

McPhee, Neil Campbell

Mitchell, Alan David

Molle, George

Montgomery, Bernard Law

Mudie, James

Muir, Ian Miller

Mundy, Godfrey Charles

Murphy, Samuel

Nepean, Nicholas

Newcomb, John Alexander

Newcomb, Robert Alfred

Newling, Arthur Sidney

O'Connell, Maurice

Pepper, Charles

Pinkerton, James William

Prentice, John Thomas

Reichenberg, Joseph

Rogers, James

Ross, Robert

Roth, Reuter Emerich

Sceberras, Rinaldo

Schatkowski, Militan

Schaw, WGB

Scratchley, Peter

Shearer, Andrew

Shirley, William Thomas

Shout, AJ

Smyth, Thomas

Spain, Staunton William

Starcevich, Leslie T

Storkey, PV

Taylor, James

Trott, David (Jock)

Wallis, James

Whalan, Charles

Willsher, Ernest Henry

Wilson, William Gavin

Wright, Francis

Wylie, John James

Wynyard, Edward Buckley

Anzac Rifle Range Moorebank

Bankstown Soldier Settlement Milperra

Ermington Naval Storage Depot

HMAS Penguin

HMAS Rushcutter

HMAS Waterhen

HMAS Watson

Holsworthy military reserve

Matraville Garden Village

Narellan Military Camp

Newington Armoury

The Redoubt

United States Army Depot

Victoria Barracks

Wynyard Barracks

'Welcome Home' for returning World War I soldier, Lewisham July 1919

1st Battalion officers Captain George Mcguire, Major Swannell and Lieutenant Shout at their camp outside Cairo, March 1915

A Corps of Foot for New South Wales, The London Gazette October 1789

A Japanese, in military uniform, addressing his 'poor dog Tray'. This is the only dog left out of the 25 with which the expedition started, May 1911

A view in Parramatta N S Wales looking East 1825-1828

ANZAC Day lunch for returned soldiers, Sydney Town Hall 25 April 1916

Addresses of men listed on the Ultimo Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour at the time of their enlistment 1914-1918

Aerial photograph of the Botanical Gardens looking east across Garden Island 7 January 1984

Albert Edward Doling 1914-1918

American soldiers laughing at a performance by comedian Joe E Brown at an army camp in New South Wales 18 March 1943

Australian prisoners-of-war returning home. Released Eighth Division men coming ashore by barge from the catalinas at Rose Bay 16 September 1945

Barracks, George Street 1845

Camp of Bushmen's contingent, Kensington Racecourse January 1900

Captain Frederick John Butts and a fellow officer of the 77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot, Hyde Park 1858

Charles Robert Grimes, Lieutenant of the 50th Regiment 1840

Colonel James Erskine c1785-1795

Commanders Residence, Spectacle Island, Sydney August 2015

Commanding Officer Leonard E Forsythe and Prime Minister Joseph Lyons at the opening of the Navy League's Sydney Training Depot on Snapper Island 26 November 1938

Crowds at public meeting in the Domain discussing the conscription issue October 1916

Detail of 'View in Broken Bay New South Wales. March 1788'

Detail of Wynyard Barracks from 'Map of the town of Sydney' 1837

Doris Fitton's production of Sumner Locke Elliott's fine Australian Army play Rusty Bugles, 1948

Evzones (Greek soldiers) who led the Greek Day march in Sydney, 28 February 1941

Field Day and Sham Fight at Randwick April 1873

Front page of Universal Service League journal, 26 August 1916

Garden Island 1898-1905

Garden Island 2003

Garden Island Naval Base 2008

Garden Island c1905

Grave of KK MacKellar, 2nd Lnt, 7 Dragoon Guards in in the military section of the cemetery in Pretoria, South Africa 1900-1905

Greeting sailors on one of three US Navy ships arriving at Garden Island on a goodwill tour 1 April 1956

Group portrait of No 6 Officer Cadet Battalion in front of Trinity College, Oxford, England January 1918

It is nice in the surf, but what about the men in the trenches? Go and help 1915

Italian prisoners of war at Strathfield Station after arrival from country prisoner of war camps on the way to the internment camp at Moorebank November 17 1945

Italian survivors of the Bartolomeo Colleoni on the deck of HMAS Sydney II, Crete 19 July 1940

Keith Kinnaird Mackellar 1898-1899

Larry Foley's White Horse Hotel in George Street, Sydney, with the Sudan regiment passing by 1885

Letter from Arthur Stace requesting a duplicate of his discharge records 15 August 1927

Letter from Dr Biffin to the Staff Officer for Invalids, Victoria Barracks, regarding the care of Private Godber, 4 November 1917

Lieutenant G J Grieve, Special Service Officer, attached to the 2nd Black Watch Royal Highlanders, New South Wales. Lt Grieve was killed at Paardeberg Drift on 18 February 1900.

Lieutenant Herbert Edwin Williams (left) and Captain George McGuire, both of the 1st Battalion, Egypt December 1914-March 1915

Looking north from Dymock's Book Arcade, 428 George Street and the Royal Hotel, decorated for Federation, 1901

Lt Col George Johnston 1810

Major Edmund Lockyer 1784-1860, in the uniform of the Sydney Volunteer Rifle Corps c1854-60

Major General Edward Macarthur 1858

Memorial to the Horses of the Desert Mounted Corps by the Macquarie Street gates of the Royal Botanic Gardens 6 October 2014

Mr Hughes great conscription meeting at Sydney Town Hall 14 November 1917

Navy League's Sydney Training Depot 3 December 1938

Newspaper report of the massacre of Aboriginal people at Appin on 17 April 1816

Next of kin plaque: Private J A Newcomb, 18 Battalion, AIF c1920

Noreen Dudgeon of Rose Bay instructs US Naval personnel in visual signalling, Sydney c1943

Plan and elevation of Military Barracks, Wynyard Square c1822

Portrait of Commandant en Chef Nicolas Baudin c1802

Prepared to receive Mosquit-ery (A Hint to the Highland Brigade during the summer campaign) 1868

Preparing for the Sudan, Paddington Barracks 1885

Preparing for the Sudan, Paddington Barracks 1885

Private John Alexander Newcomb c1915

Progress of the soldier settlement scheme at Frenchs Forest in the Lone Hand, August 1918

Quartermaster Laycock slicing Phillip Cunningham with a sword during the convict rebellion at Castle Hill 5 March 1804

Racegoers See Air Display 19 April 1942

Ratings from the new aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney march past the Cenotaph in Martin Place 1949

Responded to the Call of Duty: the Carlisle brothers 1917

Roosevelt nightclub, Kings Cross September 1944

Royal Australian Navy divers emerging from the water at the Balmoral Naval Depot 1949

Scots Regiment parade for church, Sydney 1936

Scottish Rifles, Garden Palace grounds c1895

Servicemen entering Women's Emergency Signalling Corps, 10 Clarence Street 1940s

Silhouette of Lieutenant David Blackburn c1790

Snapper Island training base 1960s

Soldiers firing muskets 1804

Spectacle Island c1920

Sydney Barracks and Military Windmill, 1817

The New South Wales Volunteer Artillery and Yeomanry Cavalry 1857

The Roll Call - or The Sudan Contingent's Return 1885

The Shirase sword at the Australian Museum 2020

The Soldiers' Riots, The Mercury, 19 February 1916

The annual meeting of the native tribes at Parramatta, New South Wales, the Governor meeting them c1826

The arrest of Governor Bligh 1808

The landing of the convicts at Botany Bay 1788

The real issue [conscription], 18 December 1917

The staff assembled on Australia Day, G H Olding Coach Building Works, Parramatta Rd, Glebe 30 July 1915

To Arms!

To the women of Australia 1914-1918

Training Ship Sydney cadets form up as Commander Australian Fleet, Rear Admiral Tim Barrett, AM CSC RAN, departs Spectacle Island after ceremony, November 2013

Ultimo Presbyterian Church World War I Roll of Honour, photographed 2015

Unionism in Excelsis - Soldiers on Strike, Liverpool 14 Feburary 1916

United States R & R men from Vietnam meet Aussie girls at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, 9 November 1967

Victoria Barracks, Paddington 1840s

Victoria Barracks, Paddington 1871

Victory Day parade, Macquarie Place, Bridge Street 19 July 1919

View in Broken Bay New South Wales. March 1788

Volunteer Camp, 1886 - Middle Head

Vote No: Conscription takes the Bread-earner of the poor mother and sister, but never the bread-earner of the rich mother and sister, etc 1915-1917

Well done NSW, God speed: departure of New South Wales Contingent for Sudan war from Circular Quay 3 March 1885

Mr Jack Healy recalls training horses for the army in Liverpool in 1928, interviewed in 1986

Mr John Costa recalls his family feeding American Italian soldiers on their Liverpool farm during World War II, interviewed in 1986

Mrs Elsie Collimore remembers scenes from the Liverpool soldiers' riot of 1916, interviewed in 1986

Mrs Jessie La Trobe describes delivering newspapers to military camps during World War II, interviewed in 1986

Mrs Lillian Watson recalls an American Air Force plane crash during World War II, interviewed 1986

Mrs Marjorie Gough recalls knitting for soldiers in World Wars I and II, interviewed in 1986

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Armed forces

Appin massacre

The ongoing dispossession of the Aboriginal people who lived on the Cumberland Plain by white settlers lead to ongoing violence and assaults. The government ordered reprisals by the military included the massacre of at least 14 Aboriginal people near Appin in 1816.

Bankstown Soldier Settlement Milperra

Faced with disabled returned soldiers from World War I, the New South Wales government sponsored group settlements on Sydney's fringes, hoping that the ex-soldiers would be able to support their families on small farms. The Bankstown settlement had 30 families by 1918, but for most of them, the experience was not a success.

De Vernicourt, Pierre Lalouette

Son of a French nobleman and anatomist, Pierre Lalouette de Vernicourt was a captain in the French Army in India at the time of the French Revolution, before seeking asylum in England. He came to Sydney and farmed 100 acres at Castle Hill, keeping largely to himself, until his death in 1804.

HMAS Watson

The site of many Aboriginal carvings, HMAS Watson has been part of Sydney's military defences since 1854.

Mackellar, Keith Kinnaird

Keith Kinnaird Mackellar was an older brother to poet Dorothea Mackellar, and was the only Australian soldier whose remains were brought back to Australia of over one thousand men who lost their lives in the Boer War.

McGuire, George

Born in Mauritius, Albert McGuire became a keen volunteer soldier with the Irish Rifles during the 1910s.

O'Connell, Maurice

Born in Ireland, Maurice O'Connell served the British Empire as a military officer in Ceylon, Malta and twice in New South Wales.

Recruiting for World War I

As the embarkation point for many World War I soldiers, Sydney was a centre for recruiting volunteers from all over New South Wales, and also strongly affected by the bitter conscription referenda campaigns of 1916 and 1917, and the subsequent political fallout.

Returned Soldiers on the Ultimo Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour

The Ultimo Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour, now housed in the Ultimo Community Centre, lists the names of 36 men who served in World War I. We can only be sure 22 came home but their stories reveal the hardships of war service, larrikin behaviour, heroism and injuries that must have been a terrible burden to returned soldiers.

Snapper Island

Snapper Island is the smallest island in Sydney Harbour. It is also the island that has been the most changed and reshaped by human manipulation.

The Fallen on the Ultimo Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour

The Ultimo Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour, now housed in the Ultimo Community Centre, lists the names of 36 men. Four of those men died as a result of their war service and were lost to their families and friends - people who openly grieved their passing. Their grief is a reminder of the true cost of war, for the fallen and for their family, friends, and community.

The Soldiers Riot of 1916

On 14 February 1916 soldiers based in the Australian Imperial Force training camps at Casula and Liverpool rioted, first in Liverpool, then at Central Station and in the city. The riot caused widespread damage, the death of one soldier-recruit, injuries to seven, multiple military and criminal convictions and contributed to the introduction of six o'clock closing across New South Wales.

Transcript: Mr Jack Healy recalls training horses for the army in Liverpool in 1928

Mr Jack Healy was born in 1908. He was interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960.' He recalls joining the remount unit [responsible for training horses for the Australian army] at Liverpool in 1928

Transcript: Mr John Costa recalls his family feeding American Italian soldiers on their Liverpool farm during World War II

Mr John Costa was born in 1928 and was interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960' project. Here he recalls his family feeding Italian American soldiers on their farm during World War II.

Transcript: Mrs Elsie Collimore remembers scenes from the Liverpool soldiers' riot of 1916

Mrs Elsie Collimore was born in 1906 and was interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960' project. Here she remembers scenes from Liverpool during World War I, including the now famous soldiers' riot of 1916.

Transcript: Mrs Jessie La Trobe describes delivering newspapers to military camps during WWII

Mrs Jessie La Trobe, who was born in 1910, was interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960.' Her family owned a news agency in Liverpool and here she describes delivering newspapers to local military camps during the World War II.

Transcript: Mrs Lillian Watson recalls an American Air Force plane crash during World War II

Mrs Lillian Dulcie Watson was born in 1904 and interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960.' Mrs Watson was witness to the crash of an American Air Force plane, due to engine failure over Hammondville, during World War II.

Transcript: Mrs Marjorie Gough knitting for the soldiers in WWI and WWII

Mrs Marjorie Gough was born in 1908 and interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960.' Here she talks here about her contribution to the war effort in both world wars

Ultimo Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour

The roll of honour from the former Ultimo Presbyterian Church, now located in the Ultimo Community Centre, lists 36 men associated with the Ultimo community who served in the First Australian Imperial Forces in World War I. The board, instigated in 1916 shortly after the arrival of Reverend John Muir, is part of a tradition in which honour rolls were used to memorialise, mobilise, recruit and mourn.

Victoria Barracks

Victoria Barracks, on what is now Oxford Street in Paddington, has been continuously occupied by military personnel since it was built in 1841. It is an outstanding example of colonial military architecture.

War Memorials for World War I

The shocking losses of Australian servicemen and women in the Great War prompted communities across Australia to find ways to memorialise those who died, and honour those who served. As no centralised authority drove or coordinated this task, the form of each memorial reflects the community that raised the funds to build it. Balmain was the first suburb in Australia to erect a war memorial, but in time, the towns, suburbs, workplaces and institutions of Sydney found a way to fulfil the covenant 'we will remember them.'

War Memorials for the Sudan and Boer Wars

The earliest monuments to Australian soldiers in Sydney are for the Sudan Contingent in 1885, and the Boer War in South Africa between 1899 and 1902. These plaques honour soldiers who served and died and, in one case, women who worked as nurses during the Boer conflict.

War Memorials to World War II and later conflicts

While memorials honouring the dead of the Great War were adapted to mark the sacrifice of those lost in World War II, the losses of a new generation led to innovations in memorialisation. Those who died on active service in Sydney, and those lost in conflicts Malaya, Korea, Borneo and Vietnam are remembered in new memorials in the city and suburbs, and along the road to Canberra. Women, prisoners-of-war and recipients of the Victoria Cross are also memorialised in Sydney.

Defence Act 1903

Legislation which the government the power to conscript for the purposes of home defence. The legislation did not allow soldiers to be conscripted for overseas service.
It was the first pieces of legislation passed by the new Commonwealth government.

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Next of Kin Memorial Plaque

Bronze plaque of 120mm manufactured in Britain to commemorate those British and Empire service personnel, both men and women who died between 4 August 1914 and 10 January 1920. It is estimated over 1 million were made.

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Rusty Bugles

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Play written by Sumner Locke Elliott about life in the Australian army in the Northern Territory during World War II. Attempts to censor the natural language in the play eventually forced a revision of Australian censorship laws.

Shirase sword

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Seventeenth century Japanese samurai sword presented by Lieutenant Nobu Shirase, the leader of the Japanese Polar Expedition, to Professor Edgeworth David as a gesture of friendship and thanks for his support during the expedition's stay in Sydney from May-November 1911. In 1979 the sword was presented to the Australian Museum by Mary David, the professor's daughter. The sword was made by Mutsu no Kami Kaneyasu, a master swordsmith who worked in the period 1600-1650.

Ultimo Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour

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Wooden board featuring three panels which include the names of 36 men who enlisted in the AIF during World War I. Initiated by Reverend John Muir in 1916 it originally listed 19 names and was placed in the Ultimo Presbyterian Church where it stayed until the church fell into disuse. The board was installed in the entrance to the Ultimo Community Centre in March 2015.

Voluntary Workers (Soldiers' Holdings) Act 1917

Act to enable the Voluntary Workers Association to create a model garden village at Matraville for disabled servicemen and war widows.

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All Saints' Air Force Memorial Church West Lindfield

Local church dedicated to the memory of Royal Australia Air Force recruits trained on the site during World War II.

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Bantry Bay Explosives Magazine Complex

Series of magazines and wharves to house and allow safe movement of explosives.

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Bardia Barracks

Barracks which were once part of Ingelburn Army Camp. They were purpose built to accommodate soldiers being trained for World War II and were named for the battalion's first battle at Bardia in North Africa.

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Gallipoli Club

One of only two remaining former wool stores constructed for the wool industry in the nineteenth century, it was acquired as club premises in 1945 for returned service personnel.

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Royal NSW Lancers' Memorial Museum

Two storey sandstone building which originally stood in Macquarie Street Parramatta and was variously used as a school, garrison quarters and RSL before being moved to its current site and dedicated a memorial museum.

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Conscription referendum 1916

Whilst universal military training for Australian men aged 18 to 60 had been compulsory since 1911, the referendum, if carried, would have extended this requirement to service overseas. It arose as British pressure mounted for Australia to continue to supply adequate forces for the European war.

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Conscription referendum 1917

British pressure to supply a sixth division of 7000 men per month led to the second referendum that would have seen compulsory reinforcements augment dwindling volunteer recruitment. Whilst it was defeated it remained highly divisive politically, socially and within religious circles.

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Rum Rebellion 1808-09

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Armed takeover of government in New South Wales, in which Governor William Bligh was deposed by officers of the New South Wales Corps, led by George Johnson, and supported by John Macarthur. Military rule in the colony continued until the arrival of Lachlan Macquarie as the new governor in January 1810.

Soldiers' riot 1916

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Mutiny of soldiers stationed at Casula military camp who travelled from Liverpool to riot in the streets of Sydney on !4 February 1916. Their drunken behaviour was to influence the referendum on early closing later in the year.

1st New South Wales Mounted Rifles

Regiment of five squadrons formed to embark for the Boer War. Preference was given to serving members and reservists who were good shots and good riders.

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33rd Infantry Regiment

Formed as a volunteer corps, the Irish Rifles had a number of names and numbers before being reorganised into the 33rd Infantry Regiment in 1912.

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39th Regiment of Foot (Dorsetshire)

British infantry regiment sent to New South Wales in 1825 and redeployed to India in 1832-3.

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40th Regiment

Infantry regiment of the British Army stationed in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land during the 1820s.

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4th/3rd Battalion, Royal New South Wales Regiment

The lineage of 4/3 RNSWR can be traced from The Newtown Volunteer Rifle Corps (1862), the Goulburn Volunteer Rifle Corps (1869) and the Ashfield Volunteer Reserve Corps (1885). New South Wales soldiers served in the Sudan (1885) and the Boer War (1899 - 1902), World War I & II.

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73rd Regiment

British Army regiment of which the 1st Battalion landed in Sydney on 1 January 1810 and took over duties from the New South Wales Corps (102nd Regiment) as the garrison in Sydney.

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80th Regiment of Foot (Staffordshire Volunteers)

British army regiment also called the South Staffordshire Volunteers which arrived in Sydney on 1 October 1834, and served as garrison and convict guards in Sydney and New South Wales until it was moved to India in 1844.

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Australian Army Nursing Service

Australian Army reserve unit which provided a pool of trained civilian nurses who had volunteered for military service during wartime.

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Australian Army Reserve

Collective name given to reserve units of the Australian Army. It has been known by many names since Federation saw the amalgamation of the military forces controlled by six separate colonies.

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Australian Imperial Force 2nd Battalion

The 2nd Battalion was among the first infantry units raised for the AIF during the First World War. Like the 1st, 3rd and 4th Battalions it was recruited from New South Wales and, together with these battalions, formed the 1st Brigade.

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Australian Naval Cadets

Training organisation for young people.

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Australian Navy Cadets

Training ship Shropshire was one of the names given to a voluntary youth organisation sponsored by the Royal Australian Navy.

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Booker T Washington Club

Nightclub in Surry Hills established by the American Red Cross during World War II, exclusively open to those of African or Aboriginal cultural background.

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Commonwealth Rehabilitation Training Scheme

Organisation established to rehabilitate returned servicemen into the community through tertiary education.

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Concord Repatriation General Hospital

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Hospital built in 1939-42 on land bequeathed for the purpose by Dame Eadith Walker, which was a military hospital during World War II and later a hospital for returned service personnel. The hospital has provided for general patients since 1974.

Dee Why RSL club

Returned services club founded on the northern beaches after World War II.

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Duke of Edinburgh's Highland Brigade

Scottish volunteer corps formed in 1868 in time for the visit of the Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh. They wore a uniform of Black Watch tartan. The unit was disbanded in 1878 as numbers had dwindled.

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Eastern Command Training School

Department of Defence training facility for driver and tactical instruction.

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Epping Returned Services League Club

Licensed club, originally for returned servicemen, later widened to include all community members and re-named the Epping Club

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First Australian Imperial Force

Main expeditionary force formed in 1914 following Britain's declaration of war on Germany. Originally comprising one infantry division and one light horse brigade it was enlarged several times, serving in Gallipoli, the Western Front, the Sinai and Palestine.

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Kirribilli Club

Returned services club also incorporating the North Sydney Anzac Memorial Club.

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Korean Vietnam Veterans' Association of Australia

Ex-service organisation for Koreans in Australia.

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Legacy

Philanthropic organisation formed to provide services to dependants of veterans.

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Lord Mayor's Patriotic and War Fund of New South Wales

Regional fund to raise money to support soldiers during World War II.

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Naval Radar Communications Centre

Military establishment formed at Gap Bluff in the early years of World War II as the potential for radar became apparent.

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Navy League Sea Cadet Company

Organisation established by the Navy League of Australia to train boys in nautical skills.

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New South Wales Corps

Permanent regiment formed to relieve the Marines of the First Fleet, which began arriving on the Second Fleet in 1790. The officers became wealthy and powerful in the colony, partly due to their trade in spirits. The Corps was reformed into the 102nd Regiment of Foot in 1809 after the Rum Rebellion.

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New South Wales Scottish Rifles

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Military unit formed in response to the Sudan crisis in 1885. Individual members also fought in the Boer War.

New South Wales Torpedo Corps

Volunteer navy unit formed with the construction of 2 torpedo-boats, Acheron and Avernus in 1878 to defend Sydney against the perceived threat of Russian warships off the coast.

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New South Wales Volunteer Rifles

Volunteer riflemen first recruited in 1854 when a Russian invasion was feared. Forerunners of today's reservists, numbers varied according to perceived threat and government support.

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Parramatta Loyal Association

One of two volunteer corps of 50 men formed in 1800 to assist British troops and reformed in 1803 as a part time militia, taking part in suppressing the Irish convict rebellion in 1804 before being disbanded in 1810 by Governor Macquarie. The other corps was the Sydney Loyal Association.

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Parramatta RSL club

Community social club originally for returned servicemen formed in 1927

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Randwick Military Hospital

Military hospital established during World War I in Randwick in the former Asylum for Destitute Children building and the Catherine Hayes Hospital. The grounds were in use by the millitary by August 1914, while the buildings were still occupied by children and Asylum staff. The last of the children left the Asylum in October 1915 and by November 300 wounded soldiers were being treated there. The site was formally taken over by the NSW Government in 1916. In 1953 remaining soldiers being treated at the hospital were transferred to the Concord Repatrition Hospital, and the buildings became part of the Prince of Wales Hospital.

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Returned Soldiers Settlement Scheme

Scheme established by legislation in New South Wales in 1916 to enable Crown Land be made available to returned servicemen for farming and settlement.

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Returned and Services League of Australia

Association which evolved as a result of the concern for the welfare of "Diggers" after the World War I. New South Wales was admitted to the League in 1917.

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Roseville Memorial Club

Social and sporting club established in 1942 as a Returned Services League sub-branch.

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Royal Australian Army Medical Corps

Branch of the Australian Army responsible for providing medical care to Army personnel.

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Royal Australian Navy Heritage Centre

Museum of Australian naval memorabilia at Garden Island.

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Royal New South Wales Veteran Corps

Military unit made up of veterans who were offered the chance to reform as a garrison unit. They arrived in Sydney in 1826 and performed guard and other light duties before being disbanded in 1833.

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School of Artillery

Artillery school established at South Head in 1895. In 1945 it was transferred to North Head.

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Snapper Island Company

Organisation established 1952 to create and manage a museum of Australian naval history on Snapper Island.

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Sydney Loyal Association

One of two volunteer corps of 50 men formed in 1800 to assist British troops and reformed in 1803 as a part time militia, taking part in suppressing the Irish convict rebellion in 1804 before being disbanded in 1810 by Governor Macquarie. The other corps was the Parramatta Loyal Association.

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Sydney Training Depot

Cadet training facility on Snapper Island, built as a memorial to HMAS Sydney.

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Universal Service League

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Pro conscription organisation in Sydney in World War I that was modelled on the British National Service League.

Veterans' Home of New South Wales

A charitable organisation established to support and assist former defence force personnel.

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Voluntary Workers Association

Association formed in 1917 after the passage of legislation to allowed for Crown land to be made available for the Soldiers' Garden Village at Matraville.

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War Service Homes Commission (New South Wales)

Commission was established by William Morris Hughes to provide low-interest home loans returned servicemen after World War I.

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Abbott, Edward

Soldier and public servant who served in Sydney, Parramatta and Norfolk Island before becoming deputy advocate general in Van Diemen's Land in 1815.

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Archer, Isaac

Early landholder at Liberty Plains, now Homebush.

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Asky, Richard

Private of the Royal Marines who sailed on board Alexander during the First Fleet.

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Badcoe, Peter

Army officer who was awarded the Victoria Cross for rescuing a soldier under heavy fire during the Vietnam War.

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Baker, Robert Walter

Gallipoli veteran who took up land at Bankstown Soldier Settlement.

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Baxter, Frederick

Soldier who became the first resident of a War Service home in Belmore in 1919.

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Bayliss, Joseph

Bayliss who enlisted in the 37th Regiment before joining the NSW Corp. Despite a land grant in 1803 he sold up within 3 years and returned to army life.

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Bower, Arthur

Poultry farmer, one of the first returned soldiers to take up land offer at Engadine in 1916.

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Bridges, William Throsby

Career soldier and able general who saw service in South Africa and was critical of the landing at Gallipoli where he became an early casualty.

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Buckley, Thomas

Soldier settler at Bankstown.

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Bull, John Edward

Military officer and public servant who supervised road gangs in the Woodford area before his appointment as commissioner for Crown lands in Castlemaine in Victoria.

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Carlisle, Walter Thomas

Labourer who enlisted as a private in the 13th Reinforcement, 19th Battalion and proceeded to France in November 1916. In July 1917, he was admitted to hospital in Le Havre for venereal disease for a total of 65 days. In October 1917, he was admitted to hospital with an injury to his wrist before he contracted 'trench fever' and was transferred to England. He proceeded back to Le Havre and was wounded in action on 5 July 1918, suffering a severe shrapnel wound to his left arm. After convalescing in England he was returned to Australia.

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Chapple, Reginald Arthur

Farmer who enlisted as a private in the 18th Reinforcements, 2nd Divisional Artillery Column and served in Suezl, Egypt before going to France in March 1918. He was wounded in action in August 1918 and admitted to hospital. After Armistice Day, he assisted the head gardener at Longford Castle in Salisbury, England who reported 'Chapple was attentive to his work and proved himself to be a keen and enthusiastic student of English farming methods'. He sailed to the United States of America for 'agricultural purposes' and after six months returned to Sydney via Canada.

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Chapple, Roland Clyde

Secretary for an insurance company who enlisted as a private in the 12th Reinforcement, 30th Battalion, trained in Liverpool and Rosebery Park Camp and was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant in August 1916. In England, he received instruction in bomb throwing at a school in Lyndhurst before proceeding to Étaples, France in April 1917. He was wounded 'accidentally' and admitted to hospital with a severe gunshot wound to his left eye. He spent two months in hospitals in England and was promoted to lieutenant in July 1917. After returning to Australia he was discharged as medically unfit.

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Currey, William

Soldier who won the Victoria Cross in France in 1918, and was later Labor MLA for Kogarah 1941-48, working for the interests of ex-servicemen, in particular.

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Dawe, Charles

Lieutenant of the 46th Regiment which ran raids against Aboriginal people near Appin and Airds.

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De Vernicourt, Pierre Lalouette

French soldier, also known as the Chevalier or Baron de Clambe, who was an early free settler in Castle Hill.

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Dolan, Sydney Robert

Bank messenger who enlisted as a private in the 7th Field Ambulance and disembarked at Plymouth, England in November 1916 before being sent to Etaples, France. He was admitted to hospital in April 1917 for 'defective vision'. He was reprimanded for absence without leave in August 1917 and February 1918. In February 1919, he was reprimanded for disobedience while on active service, forfeiting 29 days' pay and receiving 28 days labouring duties.

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Doling, Albert Edward

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Shearer who enlisted as a private in the 4th Reinforcement, 17th Battalion. Between April 1916 and June 1917 he was reprimanded several times for absence without leave, behaving 'in an insolent manner' and also 'hesitating to obey an order'. Doling was awarded a Military Medal for 'unselfish devotion to duty' during the Battle of Menin Road and in August 1918, he was admitted to hospital for a severe gun shot wound to his right thigh. After marrying in England, he returned to Australia.

Donald, James Shand

Ironmoulder who enlisted in the 11th Reinforcement, 19th Battalion. He was promoted to Extra Depot Corporal in England, and then Acting Corporal in September 1916 in Etaples, France, before reverting to private. In November 1916 he was hospitalised in England with trench foot syndrome. He was sent back to Etaples and was admitted to hospital again in May 1918 with influenza and transferred to England before being sent back to Australia suffering from synovitis in his left knee.

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Erskine, James

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Soldier and Lieutenant Governor who arrived in Sydney in 1817, departing in 1823.

Fanning, Frederick

Army officer and merchant, who with his brother William, established a vast pastoral empire in New South Wales and Queensland.

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Farrell, William Thomas

Soldier who was commissioned as Second Lieutenant No. 3 Company Sydney Battalion Volunteer Rifles in 1861 and retired in 1898 as Commanding Officer of the First Infantry Regiment with the rank of Honorary Colonel.

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Forsythe, Leonard Edgar

Australian naval officer, commander of the Navy League Sea Cadets.

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Foster, George Albert

Ironmoulder who enlisted in the 15th Reinforcement of the 18th Battalion in 1916. Wounded at Bullecourt in France he died of his wounds in May 1917.

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Foveaux, Joseph

Soldier and administrator in the New South Wales Corps who was in command of Norfolk Island from 1800-1804, and later took command in Sydney after the Rum Rebellion deposed Governor William Bligh.

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Gorman, James

English born seaman who was recipient of the Victoria Cross in the Crimean War.

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Goulburn, Frederick

Military officer and first Colonial Secretary from 1821 until a rift with Governor Brisbane saw him recalled to England in 1826.

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Grieve, Gideon James

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Scottish born soldier who died in South Africa whilst commanding his company in the Boer War.

Griffin, George Allman

Soldier who enlisted as part of the Gundagai squadron of the First Australian Horse to serve in the Boer War and was the first man enlisted in an Australian military force to be killed in a foreign war.

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Grimes, Charles Robert

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Soldier who served with the 50th Regiment in Australia from 23 March 1839 before being killed in action in the Batlle of Sobraon in 1846.

Harvie, James Fraser

Clerk who enlisted in the A Company, 20th Battalion and served in the Gallipoli peninsula in August 1915. His battalion was responsible for the defence of Russell's Top until their withdrawal from the peninsula in December 1915. He arrived in Egypt in January 1916, after which his service record notes various instances of misbehaviour including: absence without leave, 'failing to salute an officer' and being found 'out of bounds in a brothel'. He would serve with the Imperial Camel Corps, 12th Light Horse Regiment and Australian Mounted Division before returning to Sydney.

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Harvie, William Coleridge

Clerk who enlisted as a private in the 14th Reinforcement, 18th Battalion and served in France. He suffered a gun shot wound to his leg in August 1916 and was transferred to England. He was ill and transferred to England again in March 1917. He proceeded to Camiers, France in May 1917 and was admitted to hospital with trench fever two months later. He was reported missing in action in October 1917 and was later found wounded having been exposed to poisonous gas. He spent time in hospital and training camps in England before he was sent back to Camiers. In May 1918, he was admitted to a field hospital with diarrhoea and rejoined his unit before he was 'struck off strength' in January 1919.

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Henderson, Hugh Jenner

Station hand who enlisted in 1915 but after having been wounded at Gallipoli, took up land at Bankstown.

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Herring, Sydney

Soldier who joined the AIF in 1904 and rose to brigadier general during World War I. After the war he returned to his first career of real estate agent, retaining the honorary rank of brigadier general.

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Hill, William 1760-1793

Second Captain of the New South Wales Corps and commander of the detachment on the transport Surprize which brought convicts to New South Wales with the Second Fleet. He was severely critical of conditions for convicts and troops on the transport ships.

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Hobbs, Joseph John Talbot

Architect and soldier who set up practice in Perth before adopting soldiering as a second career. He distinguished himself at Gallipoli and fought in France , renowned for his justice and and integrity and hugely popular with his division.

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Hunt, Freeman

Soldier injured at Gallipoli who took up land in the Bankstown Soldier Settlement.

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Hunt, Joseph

Marine who arrived in Sydney on the Charlotte in the First Fleet. On 20 March 1789, in exchange for a pardon, Hunt told authorities all he knew about the gang organsing thefts from the Government Stores. On 27 March 1789, his co-conspirators James Baker, James Brown, Richard Lukes, Thomas Jones, Luke Haines (or Haynes) and Richard Askew (or Asky) – were hanged. Hunt was transferred to the Sirius and went to Norfolk Island, and returned to England on the Gorgon in 1791.

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Hunter, John

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Naval officer who accompanied Arthur Phillip in the First Fleet, and returned as Governor of the colony from 1795 to 1800.

Innes, Joseph Long

Army captain and early settler at Enmore.

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Kellow, Robert

First Lieutenant of the Marines who was sent to New South Wales on the First Fleet ship, Scarborough.

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Lambert, George Washington

Artist whose early experience in the bush influenced his art though he is well remembered for his portraiture and as official war artist from 1917 to 1920.

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Lambert, Hugh Robert

Engineering student who enlisted as a Lance Corporal Driver and was sent to Rouen, France in July 1915. He was reprimanded for absence without leave and then for 'making a fake statement to an officer whilst giving evidence'. In October 1916, he faced a court martial for 'conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline...having a lighted lamp...when same was loaded with ammunition'. He forfeited 19 days' pay as punishment.

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Lambert, John Thomas

Police Motor Driver who enlisted as a cleaner in the 8th Australian Army Service Corps and was sent to Alexandria, Egypt in December 1915, serving as a despatch rider. He proceeded France and was promoted to lance corporal in September 1916 and then to temporary corporal in February 1917. He was admitted to hospital in England for 'deformity right foot' in September 1918.

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Lassetter, Henry (Harry) Beauchamp

Soldier and businessman who combined duties in the family company with a successful military career in the British army.

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Lockyer, Edmund

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Soldier and explorer who became a landowner in Sydney.

Macarthur, Edward

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Soldier and administrator who grew up at Camden Park before pursuing a military career in both England and the colonies.

Macquarie, Lachlan

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British military officer who became the fifth Governor of New South Wales and was responsible for extensive social, economic and architectural development in the colony.

Maraun, Everett Hugh (Bill)

Clerk who enlisted in the 35th Reinforcement, Field Artillery Brigade and became a gunner before disembarking at Liverpool, England in August 1918. He joined his unit in Rouelles, France and was admitted to hospital with 'pyrexia of unknown origin' (probably trench fever). In May 1919 he returned to England and then to Australia.

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Marshall, James

Naval officer who was challenged to a duel by John Macarthur.

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Martin, David James

Rear Admiral Sir David James Martin was the Governor of New South Wales from January 1989 until his resignation in August 1990, shortly before his death from pleural mesothelioma. He was the first Governor to be an officer in the Royal Australian Navy officer.

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Martindale, BH

Captain in the Royal Engineers who was appointed Commissioner for Internal Communication with responsibilities for road and rail building between 1857 and 1861.

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McGuire, George

Mauritian-born clerk and soldier who died of wounds received at Gallipoli.

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McIntosh, Hector McDonald

Labourer who enlisted as a private in the 11th Reinforcement, 3rd Battalion in July 1915. He served in Egypt then France in 1916 before gunshot wounds and gassing saw him transferred to England where he died.

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McKee, Thomas Henry

Baker who enlisted in the 9th Reinforcements, 13th Army Service Corps, serving in Gallipoli in 1915 before being admitted to hospital in Egypt with an injury to his foot. He was sent to France and in April 1916 he was punished for being absent from tattoo roll call and overstaying his leave. He was punished for absence without leave four times during his service. He was admitted to hospital with pneumonia in Rouen and in 1917 and 1918 he was admitted to hospital for venereal disease on a number of occasions before he was sent back to the Field Bakery in Rouen in January 1919.

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McLeod, Stewart Jamieson

Carrier who enlisted in the 15th Reinforcement 1st Battalion serving in Egypt and the Battle of Fromelles, France on 19 July 1916. He survived only to be killed in action on 26 August 1916.

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McNeill, Albert John

Clerk who enlisted as a sapper in the 14th Field Company Engineers, arriving in Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt before being sent to Marseilles, France in June 1916. While in Etaples, he was admitted to hospital for bronchitis, possibly contracted during a gas attack. After recuperating and training in England, he proceeded to Rouelles, France and then Belgium. In April 1918 he spent time in hospital in France with a sprained left ankle and was punished in August and September for absence without leave.

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McPhee, Neil Campbell

Labourer who enlisted in the 7th Reinforcement, 45th Battalion and proceeded to Etaples, France in March 1917. On 23 September, he was admitted to hospital in France for 'debility' and a few days later for 'gastric ulcer'. He returned to Australia and was discharged as medically unfit with 'permanent disability'.

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Mitchell, Alan David

Soldier of World War I whose death was the first from the Manly district. His family commissioned a memorial to commemorate the soldiers of Manly which became the Manly ANZAC War Memorial.

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Molle, George

Officer in the 46th Regiment who was Lieutenant-governor to Macquarie from 1814 until his regiment was recalled in 1817.

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Montgomery, Bernard Law

British army officer who rose to the rank of Field Marshal during World War II, and visited Australia in 1942.

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Mudie, James

Officer of marines, landowner and author renowned for his cruelty to convicts. Eventually, disgusted with colonial affairs he returned to England and published The Felonry of New South Wales, an attack on all whom he fancied had opposed him in the colony. The subsequent duel in Sydney in 1840 only reinforced his unpopularity.

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Muir, Ian Miller

Student who enlisted in the 8th Reinforcement, 1st Battalion and was sent to Gallipoli in November 1915. He was sent to Egypt and then transferred to the 14th Machine Gun Company in March 1916, sailing for Marseilles, France. In January 1917 he was appointed lance corporal, however, two months later was found guilty of 'hesitating to obey an order given by an officer' and was reduced in rank. While in England, he was mentioned in the British General, Sir Douglas Haig's, despatches. He was promoted to lieutenant in August 1918 but returned to Australia shortly afterward.

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Mundy, Godfrey Charles

Soldier and author who commanded the military forces in the colony from 1846 to 1851 but is best remembered for his discerning eye and lively sketches in his publication of 1852 'Our Antipodes'.

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Murphy, Samuel

Soldier settler at Bankstown.

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Nepean, Nicholas

Marine and army officer who arrived in Sydney aboard the Second Fleet transport, Neptune. He was in charge of the first detachment of the New South Wales Corps and, until the arrival of Major Francis Grose, he was the corps' commanding officer. He quarrelled with John Macarthur on the voyage to Sydney, who attempted to have Nepean court-martialled before Grose settled their dispute.

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Newcomb, John Alexander

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Clerk who served in Gallipoli, Egypt and France and suffered severe gunshot wounds which required treatment in England and then Australia where he died.

Newcomb, Robert Alfred

Clerk who enlisted in the NSW Reinforcement 25 of the Australian Imperial Force in July 1918 after having previously been rejected as unfit for service; his chest measurements did not meet the standard. He embarked on 7 November 1918, just four days before Armistice Day. The troopship was recalled and he disembarked in November 1918.

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Newling, Arthur Sidney

Labourer who enlisted in the B Company, 18th Battalion. In Gallipoli he took part in the assault at Hill 60 in August 1915 before he was sent to the Western Front in France. In July 1916 he suffered a gunshot wound to his right leg and embarked for England suffering from 'shell shock'. In November he was charged with absence without leave (AWL) and then overstaying his leave, receiving 10 days' confinement to barracks. He was sent to Camiers, France in May 1917 and was wounded in action in August 1918. In February 1919 he was punished for AWL and in March he was discharged from hospital, having suffered pyrexia (possibly trench fever).

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O'Connell, Maurice

Soldier whose promotion within the British army saw him returned to the colony as head of the armed forces and Member of the Upper House.

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Pepper, Charles

Gallipoli veteran who briefly held land in the Bankstown Soldier Settlement.

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Pinkerton, James William

Carpenter who enlisted in the 15th Reinforcement, 18th Battalion and proceeded to Etaples, France in December 1916. In May 1917 he received treatment for a gunshot wound to his right leg and was admitted to hospital again in July with venereal disease, spending 78 days in treatment. In December he was found guilty of absence without leave (AWL) and sentenced to 27 days in detention forfeiting 59 days' pay. In February 1918 he was admitted to hospital with an abscess and then in May for synovitis. He was found AWL again before he was returned to Australia.

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Prentice, John Thomas

Soldier appointed Ensign to the New South Wales Corp in 1789 and who travelled with them to the colony in 1790.

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Reichenberg, Joseph

Bandmaster of the British 40th Regiment.

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Rogers, James

Marine who arrived in Sydney on the Supply as part of the First Fleet. He went missing in late October 1788 and although a convict was questioned, no charges were laid. His disappearance was not resolved.

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Ross, Robert

Marine who as Lieutenant-Governor under Governor Phillip caused undue friction and unrest both in Sydney and Norfolk Island, and was happy to be recalled in 1791 to resume his military career in England.

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Roth, Reuter Emerich

Physician and army medical officer who served in the Second Boer War as well as during World War I at Gallipoli, Egypt and the battle of Fromelles, France.

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Sceberras, Rinaldo

Maltese-born British army officer who arrived in Sydney in 1837 and supervised convicts building the Hume Highway near Goulburn.

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Schatkowski, Militan

Sailor who lived in Newcastle, New South Wales before he enlisted in 1914. After the war and while still in England he adopted his wife's name citing in a statutory declaration that: 'I am desirous that my name should be changed in all records to Militian Oldham, it being my intention to marry a natural born English subject and I desire to have an English name'.

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Schaw, WGB

Captain of the 46th Regiment which ran raids against Aboriginal people near Appin and Airds.

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Scratchley, Peter

Engineer and soldier who advised on each colonies defences.

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Shearer, Andrew

Clerk who enlisted in the 53rd Battalion, disembarking at Liverpool, England in October 1917. He was attached to the Australian Army Pay Corps in England in December 1917 and then to the Australian Army Medical Corps. He was attached to duty at a hospital in Tidworth, promoted to ER Corporal in May 1918, promoted to ER Sergeant in May 1919 and was then discharged from the AIF in 1920. He chose to stay in England to marry and work.

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Shirley, William Thomas

Stonemason who enlisted in the Australian Imperial Forces during World War I but received a medical discharge, remembered for a sphinx he carved from sandstone as a personal memorial to his fallen comrades during his convalescence at Lady Davidson Hospital.

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Shout, AJ

Born in New Zealand 1881, migrated to Australia 1905, joined the Australian Imperial Force and won both the Military Cross and Victoria Cross during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915.Died from wounds received in the battle in which he won the VC.

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Smyth, Thomas

Marine on the First Fleet who took up land on Sydney's southern boundary. A storekeeper since 1792, he was appointed as Provost Marshal in February 1796. He died suddenly in 1804 while visiting the Hawkesbury and was described as 'universally respected for his humanity in acquitting himself of the duties of his office; the generosity and benevolence of his heart; the affability of his manners, and the placidity of his disposition'.

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Spain, Staunton William

Alderman for North Sydney Council, Commander with the Royal Australian Naval Brigade, and marshal, Admiralty jurisdiction, Supreme Court. He died on 8 September 1946 after being hit by a tram in the city.

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Starcevich, Leslie T

Australian soldier of Croatian heritage who was awarded the Victoria Cross during World War II..

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Storkey, PV

Born in New Zealand 1893, migrated to Australia 1911, enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force 1915. He won the Victoria Cross in France in 1918. Later studied law and became a judge. Died in England 1969.

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Taylor, James

Topographical draughtsman attached to the 48th Regiment who created a series of watercolours on paper which, when joined together, formed a panorama of Sydney in 1820.

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Trott, David (Jock)

Cook who enlisted in the B Company, 3rd Battalion and took part in the landings at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. He was injured in July and after rejoining his unit they took part in the attack at Lone Pine. He and his battalion participated in the Battle of Pozieres in July 1916. In February 1917, he was placed under arrest having shot away fingers on both of his hands. In March 1917 he was found guilty and sentenced to 30 days heavy labouring duties for self-inflicted wounds.

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Wallis, James

English-born soldier and commander of the 46th Regiment which ran raids against Aboriginal people near Appin and Airds.

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Whalan, Charles

Former convict who was sentenced to seven years' transportation to New South Wales on 5 July 1787 for poaching trout. Charles Whalan became a sergeant in the New South Wales Corps, was the orderly sergeant to Governors, Philip Gidley King and Lachlan Macquarie, and commanded the Light Horse Guard.

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Willsher, Ernest Henry

Returned soldier who briefly held land at Bankstown Soldier Settlement.

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Wilson, William Gavin

Boilermaker who enlisted in the 38th Battalion, attached to the Cyclist Company Reinforcements who proceeded to Rouelles, France in August 1917. He was wounded in action in November and reprimanded in July 1918 for neglecting to obey an order. In August he was wounded in action and admitted to hospital with a shrapnel wound. In November 1918 he was found absent without leave (AWL) and was arrested in England in January 1919. He was sentenced to 60 days detention, but served 8 days before returning to Sydney.

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Wright, Francis

Businessman and politician, who was active in the volunteer infantry and retired as an honorary Colonel.

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Wylie, John James

Joiner who enlisted in the B Company, 2nd Battalion in July 1916 but was discharged five months later as 'under age'. His service record notes that he was 'too small for citizen forces', his height noted as five foot, one and a quarter inches. His birth record suggests he was not under age.

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Wynyard, Edward Buckley

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Commander of the troops in New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand, from 1847, he fought successfully for maintaining a large and active defence force in the colonies.

Anzac Rifle Range Moorebank

Rifle range established near Liverpool for military use.

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Bankstown Soldier Settlement Milperra

Land bought by the New South Wales government and set aside for soldier settlement in April 1917.

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Ermington Naval Storage Depot

Storage depot used by the United States Army during World War II and then by the Australian Navy. It was redeveloped for housing in the twenty-first century.

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HMAS Penguin

Royal Australian Navy training establishment on Middle Head, Sydney Harbour.

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HMAS Rushcutter

Royal Australian Navy (RAN) depot, radar and anti-submarine training school which was decommissioned in 1960 and transferred to the state for public recreation in 1979.

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HMAS Waterhen

Royal Australian Navy base at Waverton specialising in mine warfare.

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HMAS Watson

Naval base and maritime warfare training establishment at South Head.

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Holsworthy military reserve

Training area and artillery range for the Australian Army since World War I. It covers an area of bushland and barracks east of the Georges River and west of Heathcote Road south of Liverpool.

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Matraville Garden Village

Garden village planned by the State Government in 1917 under the Returned Soldiers' Holdings Act with tenancy restricted to war-injured returned soldiers, sailors and war widows. Voluntary donations of both labour and building materials helped erect 93 homes and provided for a memorial reserve, parkland and sites for public buildings and churches but the scheme suffered mismanagement and corruption and by the 1970s most had been demolished.

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Narellan Military Camp

An extensive military facility from 1940 to 1944 established as a place for army units to form up before they were posted.

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Newington Armoury

Military magazine operated first by the army and from 1921 by the navy, it was closed in 1999 as new storage rules created operational difficulties and to accommodate the athlete's village for the 2000 Olympic Games. Remnants of the 1897 structures remain.

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The Redoubt

Military enclosure to protect soldiers, convicts and supplies on rising ground near the Crescent in Parramatta Park.

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United States Army Depot

Military depot established bythe US Army during World War II on Glebe Island.

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Victoria Barracks

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Army quarters in Paddington with a range of sandstone buildings dating from 1841 to the Edwardian period, that comprise one of the best groups of colonial buildings in Sydney. The Barracks housed British soldiers until 1870 before occupation by colonial forces and the Australian Army.

Wynyard Barracks

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Barracks and parade ground constructed for the the military in the early days of the colony. They were used until the new Victoria Barracks were completed in 1848.

'Welcome Home' for returning World War I soldier, Lewisham July 1919

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1st Battalion officers Captain George Mcguire, Major Swannell and Lieutenant Shout at their camp outside Cairo, March 1915

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A Corps of Foot for New South Wales, The London Gazette October 1789

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[The London Gazette, Issue: 13140, 13 October 1789, p653]

A Japanese, in military uniform, addressing his 'poor dog Tray'. This is the only dog left out of the 25 with which the expedition ...

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[BN 215 Daily Telegraph, 13 May 1911, p15]

A view in Parramatta N S Wales looking East 1825-1828

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ANZAC Day lunch for returned soldiers, Sydney Town Hall 25 April 1916

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Addresses of men listed on the Ultimo Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour at the time of their enlistment 1914-1918

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[Base map is a detail from 'Robinson's Aeroplane Map of Sydney' 1922, Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, DC, Call no: G8964.S9 1922 .R6 TIL ]

Aerial photograph of the Botanical Gardens looking east across Garden Island 7 January 1984

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Albert Edward Doling 1914-1918

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(The story of the seventeenth battalion A.I.F. in the great war, 1914-1918, by K.W. Mackenzie, Sydney : Printed by Shipping Newspapers, 1946) (Mitchell Library)

American soldiers laughing at a performance by comedian Joe E Brown at an army camp in New South Wales 18 March 1943

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Australian prisoners-of-war returning home. Released Eighth Division men coming ashore by barge from the catalinas at Rose Bay 16 ...

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Barracks, George Street 1845

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Camp of Bushmen's contingent, Kensington Racecourse January 1900

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Captain Frederick John Butts and a fellow officer of the 77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot, Hyde Park 1858

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Charles Robert Grimes, Lieutenant of the 50th Regiment 1840

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Colonel James Erskine c1785-1795

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Commanders Residence, Spectacle Island, Sydney August 2015

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Commanding Officer Leonard E Forsythe and Prime Minister Joseph Lyons at the opening of the Navy League's Sydney Training Depot on ...

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State Library of New South Wales

[hood_18486 / Home & Away 18486]

Crowds at public meeting in the Domain discussing the conscription issue October 1916

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[nla.news-page16902155 via Trove]

(Sydney Mail, 25 October 1916, p13)

Detail of 'View in Broken Bay New South Wales. March 1788'

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William Bradley

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State Library of New South Wales

[a3461013 / Safe 1/14, Opp p 90 (detail)]

(from: William Bradley - Drawings from his journal `A Voyage to New South Wales', 1802+, Mitchell Library)

Detail of Wynyard Barracks from 'Map of the town of Sydney' 1837

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John Carmichael

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(Engraved for Tegg's New South Wales Pocket Almanac and Remembrancer for 1837)

Doris Fitton's production of Sumner Locke Elliott's fine Australian Army play Rusty Bugles, 1948

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Evzones (Greek soldiers) who led the Greek Day march in Sydney, 28 February 1941

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Field Day and Sham Fight at Randwick April 1873

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(Illustrated Sydney News, 16 April 1873, p 5)

Front page of Universal Service League journal, 26 August 1916

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Garden Island 1898-1905

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[a116048 / PXE 711/48]

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Garden Island 2003

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Garden Island Naval Base 2008

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Garden Island c1905

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[a116047 / PXE 711/47]

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Grave of KK MacKellar, 2nd Lnt, 7 Dragoon Guards in in the military section of the cemetery in Pretoria, South Africa 1900-1905 ...

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Greeting sailors on one of three US Navy ships arriving at Garden Island on a goodwill tour 1 April 1956

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[d7_01478 / APA 01478]

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Group portrait of No 6 Officer Cadet Battalion in front of Trinity College, Oxford, England January 1918

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[AWM P10081.001]

(Group portrait of No 6 Officer Cadet Battalion in front of Trinity College, Oxford. Identified are, back row, left to right: 138 Gunner (Gnr) (later Lieutenant (Lt)) Washington Whitbread, 23rd Battalion (Bn); 652 Sergeant (Sgt) (later Lt) Robert Edgar Stephens MM, 4th Machine Gun Bn; 2347 Corporal (Cpl) (later Lt) William Albert Carne, 6th Machine Gun Company; 1966 Cpl (later 2nd Lieutenant (2nd Lt)) James Patrick Kelly, 2nd Machine Gun Company; "McGuinnes"; 233 Sgt (later Lt) Sydney Richard Murdoch DCM, 30th Battalion; 379A L Cpl Joseph Frederick Ashton Taylor, 21st Machine Gun Company; 366A Cpl (later Lt) Nikolai Bortzell Aargaard, 1st Machine Gun Bn; 4503 Cpl (later 2nd Lt) James Thomas Hampson, (died of wounds 6 October 1918); "O'Brien"; 64 Sgt George Albert Williams, 7th Machine Gun Company. Third row: 1208 Sgt (later Lt) William Shaw Clayton, 6th Machine Gun Company; "Tamer"; 433A Sgt (later 2nd Lt) Hori McGregor, 10th Machine Gun Company; 1951 Acting Sergeant (later Lt) Francis James Kenealy, 57th Bn; 1660 Sgt (later Lt) Frederick Newman Cornish, 22nd Bn; Ryan; 2562 Cpl (later 2nd Lt) Thomas John Perkins MC, 4th Bn; "Doud"; possibly 1043 Sgt (later Lt) Alexander James Gibson, 37th Bn; 4354 Private (later Lt) Leslie Cranna Campbell, 4th Machine Gun Bn. Second row: 250A Cpl (later Lt) George Victor Ludvigsen, 5th Machine Gun Company; 22 Sgt (later Lt) Alfred Victor Bulgin, 5th Machine Gun Bn; 106 Sgt (later Lt) Edward Joseph Mungomery, 3rd Machine Gun Bn; 428B Cpl (later Lt) Charles Matthew Wilson, 4th Machine Gun Bn; 2501 Cpl George Herbert Perks, 15th Bn; 2772 Sgt (later Lt) Robert Taylor Gillies, 45th Bn; 501 A Sgt Cyril Lascelles Bettson, 11th Bn; 3764 Cpl (later Lt) Leonard Harbord MM, 5th Machine Gun Bn; 2615 Pte (later Lt) Ian Miller Muir, 5th Machine Gun Bn; 2884 Sgt (later Lt) Charles Douglas Walter Wray, 5th Machine Gun Bn; 1301 Cpl (later Lt) Alfred Richard Baxter Cox, 3rd Tunnelling Company; 2644 Sgt Arthur Richard Pegler MC, 2nd Machine Gun Company; 69 Warrant Officer Class 1 Francis Badham Oliver, 3rd Echelon; 1664 S Sgt William Taylor, 3rd Echelon; 375 Sgt (later Lt) Cecil Roy Boyd, 24th Bn)

It is nice in the surf, but what about the men in the trenches? Go and help 1915

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David Henry Souter

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Italian prisoners of war at Strathfield Station after arrival from country prisoner of war camps on the way to the internment camp ...

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Italian survivors of the Bartolomeo Colleoni on the deck of HMAS Sydney II, Crete 19 July 1940

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Eric Charles Evans

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Keith Kinnaird Mackellar 1898-1899

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From the collections of the

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Larry Foley's White Horse Hotel in George Street, Sydney, with the Sudan regiment passing by 1885

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[PIC/8395/1 Album 1049/1]

Letter from Arthur Stace requesting a duplicate of his discharge records 15 August 1927

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[Series B2455; Godber Andrew John; p 21 (Item barcode 4770202)]

Lieutenant G J Grieve, Special Service Officer, attached to the 2nd Black Watch Royal Highlanders, New South Wales. Lt Grieve was ...

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Lieutenant Herbert Edwin Williams (left) and Captain George McGuire, both of the 1st Battalion, Egypt December 1914-March 1915

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Looking north from Dymock's Book Arcade, 428 George Street and the Royal Hotel, decorated for Federation, 1901

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Lt Col George Johnston 1810

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Major Edmund Lockyer 1784-1860, in the uniform of the Sydney Volunteer Rifle Corps c1854-60

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Major General Edward Macarthur 1858

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Richard Daintree

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(Sun pictures of Victoria)

Memorial to the Horses of the Desert Mounted Corps by the Macquarie Street gates of the Royal Botanic Gardens 6 October 2014

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Mr Hughes great conscription meeting at Sydney Town Hall 14 November 1917

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[nla.news-page10858808 via Trove]

(The Mirror, 17 November 1917, p1)

Navy League's Sydney Training Depot 3 December 1938

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[hood_18509 / Home and Away 18509]

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Newspaper report of the massacre of Aboriginal people at Appin on 17 April 1816

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[Sydney Gazette, 11 May 1816, p2 (via Trove)]

Next of kin plaque: Private J A Newcomb, 18 Battalion, AIF c1920

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Noreen Dudgeon of Rose Bay instructs US Naval personnel in visual signalling, Sydney c1943

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Australian News and Information Bureau

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Plan and elevation of Military Barracks, Wynyard Square c1822

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Standish Lawrence Harris

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[a1357004 / C 225 - C 226]

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Portrait of Commandant en Chef Nicolas Baudin c1802

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Nicholas-Martin Petit

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Prepared to receive Mosquit-ery (A Hint to the Highland Brigade during the summer campaign) 1868

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Preparing for the Sudan, Paddington Barracks 1885

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Preparing for the Sudan, Paddington Barracks 1885

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Private John Alexander Newcomb c1915

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(Studio portrait of 1977A Private John Alexander Newcomb, 18th Battalion, of Sydney, NSW. A clerk prior to enlisting at Pyrmont, NSW, on 8 June 1915, Pte Newcomb embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Runic on 9 August 1915. On 16 March 1918, he was invalided back to Australia having suffered a gun shot wound to his chest. He died on 12 April 1919 at No 4 Australian General Hospital, Randwick, aged 20, and is buried in Rookwood Cemetery.)

Progress of the soldier settlement scheme at Frenchs Forest in the Lone Hand, August 1918

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Quartermaster Laycock slicing Phillip Cunningham with a sword during the convict rebellion at Castle Hill 5 March 1804

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[nla.pic-an5577479 (detail)]

(Detail of 'Convict uprising at Castle Hill, 1804')

Racegoers See Air Display 19 April 1942

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Ratings from the new aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney march past the Cenotaph in Martin Place 1949

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Responded to the Call of Duty: the Carlisle brothers 1917

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(The Carlisle brothers (sons of Mr and Mrs Carlisle, of Ultimo, Sydney) are cousins of the Lang brothers (who enlisted at Ballina, New South Wales). Sydney Mail, 19 September 1917 p24, Trove link: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article160629931)

Roosevelt nightclub, Kings Cross September 1944

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State Library of New South Wales

[Home and Away - 22272]

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Royal Australian Navy divers emerging from the water at the Balmoral Naval Depot 1949

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[A1200, L12302]

Scots Regiment parade for church, Sydney 1936

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[hood_13085 / Home and Away 13085]

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Scottish Rifles, Garden Palace grounds c1895

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Servicemen entering Women's Emergency Signalling Corps, 10 Clarence Street 1940s

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Silhouette of Lieutenant David Blackburn c1790

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Snapper Island training base 1960s

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[081\081685]

(Graeme Andrews 'Working Harbour' Collection: 81685)

Soldiers firing muskets 1804

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(Detail of 'Convict uprising at Castle Hill, 1804')

Spectacle Island c1920

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[a106260 / PXA 635/837]

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Sydney Barracks and Military Windmill, 1817

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Edward Charles Close

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The New South Wales Volunteer Artillery and Yeomanry Cavalry 1857

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The Roll Call - or The Sudan Contingent's Return 1885

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By

Livingston Hopkins

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State Library of New South Wales

[a4235001 / V*/Cart/30]

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The Shirase sword at the Australian Museum 2020

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By

Stuart Humphreys

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The Soldiers' Riots, The Mercury, 19 February 1916

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The annual meeting of the native tribes at Parramatta, New South Wales, the Governor meeting them c1826

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The arrest of Governor Bligh 1808

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[a128113 / Safe 4/5]

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The landing of the convicts at Botany Bay 1788

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From the collections of the

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[SAFE/ 78/70 ]

(from 'A narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay : as performed by Commodore Phillip ... with an account of New South Wales ... by an Officer of the marines', c1789, Mitchell Library)

The real issue [conscription], 18 December 1917

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[a6961066 / PXD 518, vol 50, 196]

(The Daily Telegraph war cartoons, 1917, original drawings by Hal Eyre)

The staff assembled on Australia Day, G H Olding Coach Building Works, Parramatta Rd, Glebe 30 July 1915

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To Arms!

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Industrial Workers of the World

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To the women of Australia 1914-1918

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[a8397001 / POSTERS/WORLD WAR 1914-1918/125]

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Training Ship Sydney cadets form up as Commander Australian Fleet, Rear Admiral Tim Barrett, AM CSC RAN, departs Spectacle Island ...

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ABIS Chantelle Bianchi

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Ultimo Presbyterian Church World War I Roll of Honour, photographed 2015

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Unionism in Excelsis - Soldiers on Strike, Liverpool 14 Feburary 1916

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(Daily Telegraph, 15 February 1916, p 7)

United States R & R men from Vietnam meet Aussie girls at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, 9 November 1967

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State Library of New South Wales

[ON 388/Box 110/Item 045]

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Victoria Barracks, Paddington 1840s

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[a623025 / PX*D 123, 8c]

Victoria Barracks, Paddington 1871

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Charles Percy Pickering

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Victory Day parade, Macquarie Place, Bridge Street 19 July 1919

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View in Broken Bay New South Wales. March 1788

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By

William Bradley

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State Library of New South Wales

[a3461013 / Safe 1/14, Opp p90 ]

(from: William Bradley - Drawings from his journal `A Voyage to New South Wales', 1802+, Mitchell Library)

Volunteer Camp, 1886 - Middle Head

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(from the album 'Works by Members of the Amateur Photographic Society of N.S.W presented by the Society to His Excellency Lord Carrington August 1886')

Vote No: Conscription takes the Bread-earner of the poor mother and sister, but never the bread-earner of the rich mother and sister, ...

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Anti-Conscription League of Australasia

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[a7478004 / A 1523]

(from the Anti-Conscription League of New South Wales minute book, 1915-1917, Mitchell Library)

Well done NSW, God speed: departure of New South Wales Contingent for Sudan war from Circular Quay 3 March 1885

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[a1528402 / SV/29]

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Mr Jack Healy recalls training horses for the army in Liverpool in 1928, interviewed in 1986

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Mr Jack Healy was born in 1908. He was interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960.' He recalls joining the remount unit [responsible for training horses for the Australian army] at Liverpool in 1928.
Transcript

INTERVIEWER: When did you join the army?

JACK: 1928.

INTERVIEWER: And what made you decide to join the army?

JACK: Well, I was out of work and a couple of chaps that I knew, as a matter of fact I knew the Commanding Officer too. Then a vacancy came up, chap left, I went down to present myself and went for the medicals and got the job.

INTERVIEWER: Did you view it as a job?

JACK: Oh sure. Money. Yes, money. I think everybody did that.

INTERVIEWER: Was it hard work?

JACK: Oh, yes and no; young horses, handling young horses, driving, riding, all that sort of thing, yes.

INTERVIEWER: You were in the remounts were you?

JACK: That's right. Handling horses, breaking horses, training them for army manoeuvers, military purposes as it may be, staff horses, and ordinary artillery horses.

INTERVIEWER: Whereabouts did they get the horses from?

JACK: Hired them in the country, they were called Murray Walers. And they also bought them for the Indian army. Their horses came from here too. They were a kind of what you'd call a buggy horse really, bigger than a pony, about 16-hand type of thing.

INTERVIEWER: How did they get the horses to Liverpool?

JACK: Train. There used to be a train line went out from here to Holsworthy in those days, used to be the German camp.

INTERVIEWER: Did you know much about horses before you started?

JACK: Well, we always had horses when I was a kid. They were Tuxedo breed, American. We had the fastest horse on Hoxton Park Road.

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(Excerpt from interview with Mr Jack Healy from the 'Looking back at Liverpool : an oral history of the Liverpool region 1900-1960' conducted in 1986 by Liverpool City Council, editor and project co-ordinator Catherine Johnson ; researchers Angela Imbrosciano, Verica Miiosavijevic, Kathleen Smith.)

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Mr John Costa was born in 1928 and was interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960' project. Here he recalls his mother feeding American soldiers on their Italian family farm during World War II.
Transcript

JOHN: My parents were from Italy, from Sicily. My father came out and three years after my mother came out. My people, they came to Chipping Norton, we had a vineyard there and a market garden and I can remember then across the river from our place there was Warwick Farm Racecourse, where quite a few American sailors were in there at the time and they used to come across the river. The river at that time you could walk across it at low tide, it wasnÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢t very deep, and they used to come around and up to the house, ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‹Å“cause a lot of Americans were Italians too, and they used to come over there and have feeds of spaghetti and stuff, Mum used to feed them. I can never forget their faces (we had a couple of cows) they used to like milk shakes, egg flips, and all that sort of thing. They really made us at home - we used to go across with them and they used to give us a few supplies, to keep us going because we had a family, IÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢m from a family of ten, and they were all born around the Liverpool area, all except my sister [who] was born in Pamarea in Italy.

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(Excerpt from interview with Mr John Costa, from the 'Looking back at Liverpool : an oral history of the Liverpool region 1900-1960' conducted in 1986 by Liverpool City Council, editor and project co-ordinator Catherine Johnson ; researchers Angela Imbrosciano, Verica Miiosavijevic, Kathleen Smith)

Mrs Elsie Collimore remembers scenes from the Liverpool soldiers' riot of 1916, interviewed in 1986

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Mrs Elsie Collimore was born in 1906 and was interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960' project. Here she remembers scenes from Liverpool during World War I, including the now famous soldiers' riot of 1916.
Transcript

ELSIE: It was always a military town here and there was always soldiers.

INTERVIEWER: Do you remember anything about World War I?

ELSIE: Yes. I remember going down to get the Evening News . I think I was about seven or eight. And it had big black letters across the paper: 'England at War', and I remember running home, we lived in Northumberland Street, to tell my mother because I heard a man read it out. And that was the beginning of it all. There were soldiers, their camp was across where STC [Standard Telephones and Cables is [was]. It was all tents. There was no other camp around. I think there was a camp at Casula because I remember there was a riot. We were going to school one day, and when the kids heard the train, and the trains always used to blow 'Cock a Doodle Doo' when the troops were going away. And of course we heard all this noise and everyone ran to the station and when we got over there, there were soldiers hanging onto the train and they were in the engine, oh great old to-do. So we didn't know what was happening; it was a riot. The soldiers from the two camps had met and took control of the place. Shops were all closed and there was military police everywhere and anyone that had robbed them [the soldiers] or cheated them, they got even. They broke the windows of the shops and filled all the kit bags with pickles and whatever was in the windows. Then when we got down the street all the shops were closed and the military police were walking up and down and they only allowed about five people at a time in the shops.

INTERVIEWER: What was the general feeling like during the war?

ELSIE: Oh well of course there was no wireless or anything to hear, you had to all Ã¢â‚¬â€œ there'd be a crowd down outside the paper shop of an evening waiting for the paper to come in because that was the only way you had any news. There was no wireless or TV to tell you anything.

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(Excerpt from interview with Mrs Elsie Collimore from 'Looking back at Liverpool : an oral history of the Liverpool region 1900-1960' conducted in 1986 by Liverpool City Council, editor and project co-ordinator Catherine Johnson ; researchers Angela Imbrosciano, Verica Miiosavijevic, Kathleen Smith)

Mrs Jessie La Trobe describes delivering newspapers to military camps during World War II, interviewed in 1986

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Mrs Jessie La Trobe, who was born in 1910, was interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960.' Her family owned a newsagency in Liverpool and here she describes delivering newspapers to local military camps during World War II.

Transcript

JESSIE: We had all the camps to do and down there, where all the houses are now on the left hand side, near Warwick Farm Station, before you cross the bridge, that was a big army camp. It was the British navy that really had it and they called it the 'Golden Hind' and they treated it like a ship. When they went in the gate they went 'onboard', when they came out they came 'ashore'. Then we had the Americans in the centre of Warwick Farm racecourse so we had all that to do, and all the extra people who were about. We had nothing to do with Moorebank and Ingleburn as far as papers went but there were a lot about, a lot of people in the street. I still have my pass to go aboard the Golden Hind. They gave me a pass because we used to have to take papers in to the boys, the paperboys. I used to have to pick the papers up at the railway station, Warwick Farm railway, and take them and deliver them into the camps to the boys in different parts of the camps because they were big camps, and take them down, and then the boys would ride their bikes back here and check their money in.

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(Excerpt from interview with Mrs Jessie La Trobe in 'Looking back at Liverpool : an oral history of the Liverpool region 1900-1960' conducted in 1986 by Liverpool City Council, editor and project co-ordinator Catherine Johnson; researchers Angela Imbrosciano, Verica Miiosavijevic, Kathleen Smith)

Mrs Lillian Watson recalls an American Air Force plane crash during World War II, interviewed 1986

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Mrs Lillian Dulcie Watson was born in 1904 and interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960.' Mrs Watson was witness to the crash of an American Air Force plane, due to engine failure over Hammondville, during World War II.
Transcript

INTERVIEWER: Do you recall the plane crashing?

LILLIAN: Down the back here? Yes.

INTERVIEWER: Can you tell me a bit about that?

LILLIAN: Yes, I can remember that quite well. It was night time, or dusk, and an air raid warning went and of course the next thing you see all these planes and this plane came round over the house and you could sort of hear the wheels, it wasn't very far off the roof. The next thing we heard Bang! Of course all the kids were out like a shot out of a gun, they were going no matter what happened, they were going to see what happened, and of course they came home and all the tales they came home to tell us. Some gruesome tales they were, some of them. Anyhow, they came home and they had bullets, all sorts of bits and pieces they had, they brought home for souvenirs. I didn't know what to do about them. 'Well' I said, 'You're not taking them into the house, you can put them out in the shed.' A couple of days afterwards, a chap came knocking on the door. He was an American negro, and he said to me 'You got children?', a very abrupt sort of a man he was. I said 'Yes' . He said 'Have they been down the scrub (as he called it)?' And I said 'Oh yes, naturally,' I said, 'All the children have been down there.' He said 'Have they brought anything home from the wreck?'. I said 'Yes'. He said 'You know you can't have them. They belong to the American camp.' I said 'Oh well, you better come and take them'. So he came out and he had a big box and he lumbered all this stuff into the box and he said 'Thank you, you'll hear more about this.' I said 'Oh boy'. So when Don [son] came home from school, because the first thing, all the kids dive out to the shed to see all their souvenirs. And he came in and he said 'What happened to all our things'. I said 'Oh, a chap came and took them all away.' 'Oh, he had no right to do that, we found them!' But they took them just the same; but he never ever came back, we never heard any more about it.

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(Excerpt from interview with Mrs Lillian Watson from the 'Looking back at Liverpool : an oral history of the Liverpool region 1900-1960' conducted in 1986 by Liverpool City Council, editor and project co-ordinator Catherine Johnson ; researchers Angela Imbrosciano, Verica Miiosavijevic, Kathleen Smith)

Mrs Marjorie Gough recalls knitting for soldiers in World Wars I and II, interviewed in 1986

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Mrs Marjorie Gough was born in 1908 and interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960.' Here she talks here about her contribution to the war effort in both world wars.
Transcript

MARJORIE: I knitted socks for the first war [WWI] when I was seven. I was born in England and came out. War broke out in 1914 and we came out in 1915 and our boat was the last boat that came out to Australia and then they stopped bringing people out. And we used to knit, in the last war [WWII] you'd knit in church and everywhere, in the last war. Now you wouldn't see people knitting in church but we knitted in church, socks and things for the soldiers.

INTERVIEWER: Who would get the knitted items to the soldiers? Would it be through Red Cross?

MARJORIE: Through Red Cross, yes, and we used to put a little note in and say who did them. My sister, she's still got it I think, she got a reply back from one of the chaps. But the Red Cross, they would supply the wool, and then [we'd] knit for all the soldiers, that was in the first war [WWI]. Then in the second war [WWII] [we] knew people that we'd send them to them.

INTERVIEWER: It wasn't through an organisation in the Second World War?

MARJORIE: No, just knitted them and sent them to people that we knew; little balaclavas and socks, jumpers, things like that. I used to like knitting..

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Liverpool City Library

(Excerpt from interview with Mrs Marjorie Gough in 'Looking back at Liverpool : an oral history of the Liverpool region 1900-1960' conducted in 1986 by Liverpool City Council, editor and project co-ordinator Catherine Johnson ; researchers Angela Imbrosciano, Verica Miiosavijevic, Kathleen Smith)

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