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Australian Army soldiers marching along Macquarie Street, Sydney, 1914-1918

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

  • Ruby Lace said:
    A proud moment indeed. A moment to cherish for the soldiers and with their heads raised high......... marched off into the unknown Hell. Praise the Lord and praise the guys for their steadfastness in the face of absolute adversity. The spirit................. their spirit, lives on and will do so for eternity. There is no such thing and Guts and Glory. Just lots of guts.
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Thanks so much for alerting that to us quasymody. We've sent an enquiry through to the AWM for clarification :)
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    [https://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Thank you so much for your hard work on this QM :) Just updating records now.

Australian troops at Garden Island Wharf ready for embarkation

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Ahhh!! well spotted! Thank you so much quasymody! :) You're on a roll. I think there's definitely a blog there, especially as they name a few who 'responded to the call'.
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    [https://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] It's interesting, I've just noticed these men appear to be holding instruments which would match with your assumption that 00024594 was taken on the same occasion. I'm thinking the man just beyond our 'Colonel' appears in the NLA article far right just on the edge of the photo. This could mean it was the same day?? Though not a given...
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    [https://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] wow! Great work yet again Quasymody. I think there's another blog in that :) How can you even see the dog in the Mirror of Australia pic?! Surely it has to have been taken at the same time then...
  • covid convict said:
    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/105136983/10859188 - the Mirror of Australia, 11th November, 1916...this pic looks to have been taken on the same occasion...

    Also possibly the same occasion

Corporal William Gilbert Harvey Bawden

from IWM Collections

  • Moominpappa06 said:
    Williams Australian Army papers can be seen here naa12.naa.gov.au/NameSearch/Interface/ItemDetail.aspx?Bar... He was born Fremantle and had been employed as a Clerk prior to enlisting. He gave his next of kin as his father, living at 29 Hampton Road, Fremantle.(Subsequent mails went to 9 Hampden Road, so may be an error) He is described as 5 feet 8 and a quarter inches tall, weighed 175 pounds with a fresh complexion, grey eyes and brown hair. His religion is given as Congregalionalist. It looks like he had to resign from some kind of militia unit in order to be able to enlist for service overseas. His military career seems to have followed a not untypical pattern for Australian soldiers, with several offences for being absent from parade and AWOL while stationed in England but rapidly promoted once in the field. Even whilst recovering he went AWOL from hospital for 3 days. As well as the Croix de Guerre, the note on his records read "Commendation of the Div.Commandant at Armentieres. 8.3.17 During a bombardment of the town by the enemy, Cpl Bawden by allaying(?) the alarm of the residents(?) + helping the wounded. A factory was being shelled causing casualties among the women workers. On hearing cries for assistance Cpl Bawden entered the building and ??? assisted in the removal of the wounded workers while the factory was still being shelled - before all were removed he himself was severely wounded. (??? = handwriting is indecipherable. The citation isn't typed out anywhere in his records)
  • Blueboy106 said:
    It is tempting to assume that this picture was taken after his injuries had been managed, perhaps even after the war. His uniform is in particularly good condition for the time and the right side of his face, sympathetically in shadow, does appear to be disfigured.
  • Charlotte Czyzyk said:
    Help piece together the Life Stories of more than 8 million men and women who made a contribution during the First World War at www.livesofthefirstworldwar.org/