by Pam Caddy In 1999 a television program ‘Adopt A Soldier’ promoting the Perth Battye Library, featured a copy of a photograph of Pam Caddy’s father and four of his brothers all serving in WW1. This was the first time that Pam had seen the photo and she found out that it was from a […]
Frank Albert Day – mascot to the 11th Battalion
05/09/2020 By Leave a Comment
Story by:- David McMillan Truth can be stranger than fiction can’t it? Frank Day’s life is stranger than most and shouldn’t be forgotten. Blackboy Hill was the Western Australian training camp established in 1914 to house local Australian Imperial Force (AIF) recruits before they left for the battlefronts in the Middle East and Western Europe. […]
Royce Woodhead – a soldier in the making
29/08/2020 By Leave a Comment
North Kalgoorlie School Cadets, winners of the best shooting school cadets. Taken in 1909. Back row ? SMITH, Jack BACKHOUSE, Captain Lionel JEFFRIES, E STRANGER, Eric LEAN Front Row: Royce WOODHEAD, Tom CLEMENTS, B CAPLE, Sid KINGS. Young Royce Woodhead would have been about 14 yrs old in the above photograph, although he look younger, […]
The Last Australian at Gallipoli:
06/06/2020 By 2 Comments
The following story was recently sent to me by Ian Shaw. He told me that he had lost track of a relative by the name of Eli Shaw. This is what he said- It wasn’t until I started looking outside Victoria that Eli Shaw again appeared, this time hunting for gold on the Eastern Goldfields […]
The Boyland Brothers:
01/10/2019 By Leave a Comment
Young men “turned to stone”. George Boyland George Boyland was born in Garden Gully, Bendigo, Victoria, on the 8th March 1872. The son of a miner, he and his brother and sister moved with their parents from Victoria to Queensland, and then around 1894 to Western Australia. He seems to have travelled back and forth […]
