Check out the latest commemoration we make of soldiers who took part in the Great War.
Thomas Robert Irwin
Another Aussie from the Bundaberg region who is now at rest at the National Monument Cemetery at Villers Bretonneux.
| thomas_robert_irwin.docx |
Harry Caudle
One of the saddest stories
The Honney Brothers.
| the_honney_story_ww1.pdf |
A Very unique story about a possible Lost Digger of Fromelles. Rodger Caughey
| The Story of Rodger Caughey from Hughenden Queensland. |
16 Qld soldiers buried at Vignacourt Cemetery in Northen France
| 16 young Queensland soldiers who gave their lives and now lie at rest in Vignacourt home of The Lost Diggers of Vignacourt. |
Harry Burrows 2574 AIF 4th Battalion Military Medal and Bar to Military Medal
Stories of the Great War
Errol Remfry KIttson - A Silent Soldier of Naours
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lieutenant John BAin Moncrief
|
|
Thomas See William See
52nd BAttalion
|
|
Leonard Charles Chaplin 21st MAchine Gun Company
William Outtram.....MontaUban
battle for St Flers 1916
|
The Battle of the Somme........
As you travel around the Somme and look at countless small cemeteries that hold the graves of young men from countries near and far.....you cannot but think of the futility of war! Small ,obscure stone fenced ,beautifully manicured Commonwealth War Grave sites dot the French countryside almost as frequently as the poppies blooming at this time of year. Some of these cemeteries hold what was the lifeblood of our nation from 1916 to 1918. In 1916 , the Battle of the Somme was to leave a legacy of loss for both allied and German forces. So much so , that after the December of 1916 when the Battle of the Somme came to an end...only 12 kilometres had changed hands with a loss of many tens of thousands of men. Poziers, Mouquet farm, Dernancourt and Flers are all key battle fields where Australians took part. We pay special homage to one of the fallen today who died during the Battle of Flers in November 1916...........William Outtram. On the 12th March 1915.........a young Australian man by the name of William Outtram from Digby Victoria enlisted in the AIF and headed to Gallipoli with Australia's 5th Division contingent to fight for King and country. After surviving the events of 1915 at Gallipoli, William suffered the scourge of the trenches - amoebic dysentery. Evacuated on a hospital ship in December 1915 he was returned to Australia. Not content to have said ,I have done my bit......re enlisted and was shipped of to France with the 58th Battalion arriving on the 30th September. He had avoided Poziers but still had the horrors of a wet battlefield bogged down in trench warfare and constant bombardments. During the Battle for Flers he was wounded by machine gun fire on the left side and evacuated to the 13th Field hospital where he died on the 26th November 1916. He was buried in a quiet corner of original Quarry Cemetery. He was later reinterred in the Commonwealth War Graves Quarry Cemetery just outside Montauban in Picardy. A cemetery plaque was found by a potato farmer in a field n 1985. It was probably discarded when William was reburied after the end of the war. Lest we Forget! 
Cameron Mackenzie- Belgium
|
James Hourihan- Menin Gate
| ||||
| rodger_caughey.pdf |
| the_honney_story_ww1.pdf |
The Honney Brothers
