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A former Wollongong teacher's beautifully written WWI letters paint a vivid picture of daily life in the trenches ...
Before embarking on his 32-year career as a school teacher in Wollongong, Thomas (Jersey) Christie served in many of the ...
Not content with ridiculing the Kaiser in the pages of the Daily Express, Sidney Strube joined up, serving with distinction ...
A sample of the war letters written by Wollongong soldier turned teacher Tom Christie ...
Chinese state institutions are bypassing Marxist-Leninist historiography to embrace transnational narratives of World War I ...
While Australia and New Zealand were changed forever by Gallipoli, Turkey's national identity was also shaped here. A ...
The honours of James Ockendon will be sold by Nesbits Antiques Auctions in Clarendon Road, Southsea, on May 21. His Victoria ...
Private John Hope kept diaries of his time with the Seaforth Highlanders — from joining up in 1915 to being demobbed in 1919.
“At 5:30 am, that call of duty and honour propelled the first 15,000 of their ranks to rise from the trenches and storm the ridge ... lying in the fields from Flanders to Picardy, etched into its ...
In the programme notes writer Michael Morpugo says the novel and the play together are a stark reminder of 'the pity of war.' War Horse - once seen - will never be forgotten for depicting that pity, ...