Gallipoli: Tom’s Story
This post is dedicated to the memory of my great great uncle Thomas Alexander Gillanders, who was killed in action one hundred years ago today, and to those who fought alongside him at Gallipoli.
WW1 Postcard: The Search for Trooper Harvey
As my regular readers will already be aware, among my collection of historical ephemera, military memorabilia and postal history are several albums of postcards sent by soldiers during the First World War. This year marks the centenary of the start of that conflict, so I’ll be sharing more […]
A Mystery Ship in Port Said
As a follow-up to my earlier post on the HMAS Encounter I thought I’d share another photograph from the same collection. Last time the identity of the ship was written on the back of the image by the photographer, but this time I know a lot less about […]
Why the Interest in War?
Those of you who know me might be surprised that I’ve managed half a dozen posts before posting a photo of a machine gun. (The picture above is an original World War One postcard printed by the Daily Mail and shows two British machine gunners on the Western […]
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