Passchendaele: a name written in blood
If getting killed by the thousands is glorious, it was glorious in the Ypres battle. My battalion came out 200 strong out of a thousand. It breaks my heart when…
Russell Atkinson was labelled a deserter on the basis of no evidence at all. How Smith's Weekly reported his eventual vindication.
How a vanished soldier’s “deserter” label harmed his family, and how he eventually “died”
Private Russell Atkinson went into the front line with his unit of the Australian Imperial Force's 54th Battalion in October 1916. When his unit was relieved on October 28, he…
Maud Butler in uniform. Photo from The Sydney Mail
Maud Butler, the Kurri girl who wanted to be a soldier, and her bad soldier brother
The main fighting Maud Butler did in World War I was with the authorities who wouldn’t let her go to the front to “do her bit”. A feisty Kurri Kurri…