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24.01.2022 The Silent Cities - Paul Reed https://oldfrontline.co.uk/2020/10/10/the-silent-cities/

24.01.2022 Podcast: During the first year of the First World War, Vera Brittain went from studying English Literature at Oxford to nursing for the war effort. By the end of the war she had lost two male friends, her fiance and her brother, Edward. By this time, she had also evolved from the sister who encouraged her brother to sign up for duty to the ‘outstanding feminist pacifist of her generation.' In this episode, James speaks to Caroline Kennedy-Pipe from Loughborough University about Vera's life, her route into pacifism and her efforts against warfare before and during the Second World War. https://podfollow.com//7809fa469cce0678d952cac6c9abda/view

23.01.2022 Victory is within our Grasp! Victory was the regimental mascot of the 3rd Pioneer Battalion, 3rd Australian Infantry Division, Australian Imperial Force in ...1916. This picture appears on a period postcard mailed from England in late 1916 to Australia. Written on the reverse is the following message: Dear cousin Nell, this is a shot of our Bull Dog. We are taking him with us to the front. I think the Germans will go when they see him charging them. We have not got any further notice of sailing, but we are all packed up ready now. Well, there is no news so goodbye from your fond cousin E. Redgate. Sapper Redgate actually served in the 2nd Pioneer Battalion, not the 3rd, so he may have taken poetic license in claiming Victory was our bulldog. That is forgiveable in a young man when he is so far from home. Sapper Edgar Harold Redgate, No. 2160, was a 21 year old single farmer from Tumbi Umbi, New South Wales when he enlisted on April 14, 1916 and then embarked on June 6, 1916. On March 18, 1917 he was admitted to hospital and on September 21, 1917 he was wounded and re-joined his unit on October 19, 1917. He was gassed on July 23, 1918 and re-joined his unit on September 2, 1918. He returned to Australia on the ship Anchises on October 8, 1919 and was discharged on November 30, 1919. What ever happened to dear Victory if and when he reached France? Lest we Forget Postscript: the second photograph is of officers of the 2nd Pioneer Battalion, at the Front in late 1916.Their (perhaps temporary) mascot is visible, in relaxed repose, in front of these officers and gentlemen.

23.01.2022 The 17th anniversary of Ballarat's Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial will be honoured with a virtual service on Sunday, 14 February at 11am via this link bit.ly/39ODmVm One of Ballarat’s Tunnellers is also listed on this National Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, also mentioned in our Mining Mud & Medals book: Sapper Walter Young (4156) who enlisted in Creswick, aged 30, joined the 2nd Tunnelling Company on 29 September 1916. He was captured at Nieuport-Bains on 10 Jul 1917... and was listed by the War Office in October 1917, as slightly wounded. He died as a Prisoner of War in Cologne, Germany, where he is buried. B&W image via AWM Cologne, Germany, 1919 Prisoner of War Cemetery P00826.116 Stolen Years: Australian prisoners of war - Prisoners of the Germans: https://www.awm.gov.au//exhibitions/stolenyears/ww1/germany

20.01.2022 Around 9.15 am this morning, a short interview with Yvon Davis about the Mining Mud & Medals book and how delighted we are with the Victorian History Award nomination. Voice FM

20.01.2022 Via twitter @sommecourt (Paul Reed) #Loos105: Rudyard Kipling (left, in top hat) at the unveiling of the Loos Memorial in 1930. His only son was named on the memorial. ‘My boy Jack’ - Rudyard Kipling... (From the movie ‘My boy Jack’) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Db8zOE8jCE See more

20.01.2022 Ballarat during 2 pandemics - 100 years apart

19.01.2022 Ballarat Mechanics Institute Twilight Talks are back. Twilight Talks 2020 - Marion Snowden will give a presentation (online) on the 20th of November. 'A large variety of determinants can lead a person to an interest, a project, a hobby, an enterprise, a pastime. Marion’s starting point for this talk was quite simple: taking her walks in a new area of town. The interest began when she sighted an unusual surname. It has led to a heightened curiosity, a collection of several h...undred photos and quite a deal of probing'. Come along a learn a little more about just a few of the names found behind the gates of Ballarat’s Old Cemetery. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/twilight-talks-2020-marion-

19.01.2022 Due to Covid-19 the AWM objects curators had the opportunity to spend more time at their storage facility. One item is a very rare stretcher. Learn more: ow.ly/lS0750ByxxW Image: This stretcher has nearly identical features to the one held by the Memorial. RELAWM00963.

18.01.2022 Remembering Frederick Rawlings - Lest We Forget

12.01.2022 Stories of real life Prisoner of War escapes in WW1: https://www.iwm.org.uk//5-stories-of-real-life-escape-atte

12.01.2022 Mining war history book recognised by awards https://timesnewsgroup.com.au///mining-mud-medals-history/

10.01.2022 Belgian battlefields’ toll on Ballarat https://timesnewsgroup.com.au//belgian-battlefields-balla/

10.01.2022 The Spanish Flu in the Pacific https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/blog/Spanishflu

10.01.2022 Museum buys memorial plaque of Great War’s ‘first black officer’ (Via Paul Reed on twitter)

08.01.2022 Alfred 'tiny' Ryan - the boxing soldier https://indigenoushistories.com//alfred-tiny-ryan-the-box/

07.01.2022 Since August 2019, Howard and a dogged team of sculptors and models have been at work on what, for sheer scale alone, must count as one of the epic art projects of the 21st century. His mammoth sculpture group, which will become the nation's official World War I monument when it's unveiled in Washington, D.C., in 2023 or 2024, may be the largest freestanding bronze relief in the western hemisphere. https://www.northjersey.com//world-war-monume/6699631002/

06.01.2022 How an Australian company is helping build world's longest suspension bridge connecting Gallipoli https://www.sbs.com.au//how-an-australian-company-is-helpi

06.01.2022 Excavations at Ypres

04.01.2022 A major reconstruction project is underway at Sailly-Saillisel British Cemetery in France. The boundary walls of this site, on the former battlefields of the Somme, are being rebuilt using 60,000 specially made bricks to match the original materials https://www.cwgc.org//major-restoration-on-the-somme-our-/

04.01.2022 Battlelines redrawn http://www.battlelines-redrawn.co.uk/paintings.html

04.01.2022 THIRTEEN-year-old Heidi Erwin will read a poem at this Sunday’s virtual seventeenth anniversary service for The Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial. https://timesnewsgroup.com.au//news/legacy-ex-pow-memorial/

03.01.2022 #OTD in 1917 Pte Patrick Bugden was killed during action at Polygon Wood, Belgium. Bugden performed outstanding bravery over the three days prior to his death and for these actions he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. Learn more: ow.ly/LcNo50ByBPm Image: H12601