Letters and Stories
Read the stories of the brave men and women who went to war
and their connection to the region.
Hamel
Hamel was a small town but its capture by the Australians inspired the Allies on the Western Front.
August 6 - Major Chapman killed by shell-fire
The Maryborough man who was the first Anzac to step ashore at Gallipoli.
1917 - No kin left
William Harold Wilson, who was accepted for active service yesterday, enlisted under most remarkable circumstances.
Wonderful endurance and self-sacrifice
Before the war, I never dreamt that just average men could do so well.
6800 Australians killed
In the fighting around Pozieres, the British 48th Division lost 2844 casualties from 16–28 July and 2505 more from 13 August.
The Nek
Below to the right lay the Australian trenches at The Nek, the narrow strip of flat land about the size of a football field.
Good god Bill, what's happened to my brigade?
The full horror of the sacrifice of the 5th Division at Fromelles sunk in slowly in Australia.
Disease, heat and flies
As the summer swelter set in, the Anzacs cursed billions of flies drawn by unsanitary conditions.
It is not necessary to leave now. Les Australians will hold them.
Fleeing in the face of the German offensive of 1918.
A chap's nerves soon get a bit unstrung after he has been here a bit
The year 1917 is considered the most costly for Anzacs.
On the loss of your son James
Dernancourt, a village on the River Ancre in France, was the scene of desperate fighting during the German offensive.
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