by Mitch Brunke | Feb 3, 2020
‘A chap’s horse proves his best friend’ ‘Throughout history, mounted troops have been known as the elite men of arms and the Australian Light Horse is a part of that legendary tradition.’ https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/LIB100046415 An interpretation centre about...
by Mitch Brunke | Jan 31, 2020
The Pozieres map is stylised to represent the relative position of opposing forces on the Western Front and the locations of some major battles fought by Australians. In 1914 Germany and the Allies built the 750 km line of trenches stretching from Switzerland to the...
by Mitch Brunke | Jan 31, 2020
“ … on we went as if in a dream ..’ Captain Walter Boys: (his last letter home to his mother, published in the Maryborough Chronicle after his death at Pozieres): Dear all at home. That I am alive to have a chance of writing to you all once again is a miracle. I...
by Mitch Brunke | Jan 31, 2020
About 200 ships, one of the largest armadas in history, gathered at Mudros Bay, Lemnos, to sail to Gallipoli on April 25. The British and French landed at Cape Helles, the Anzacs at what would become known as Anzac Cove. At Anzac, men were lowered into rowboats,...
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