Lieutenant Colonel Charles Groves Wright Anderson, VC, MC (1897–1988)
Middle-aged, bespectacled, and a veteran of an earlier war, Anderson did not look like a Hollywood-style war hero.
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Australian War Memorial
Private Alan Thomas Adams, Australian Army Service Corps, att’d 2/12th Field Ambulance
Alan Adams was born in St Peters, Sydney, on 4 April 1913 to Albert and Florence Adams. He grew up and attended school in Newtown.
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Australian War Memorial
Brothers of Glen Innes
The descendants of the Cole Family shared this story of three brothers who enlisted in the First World War in June 1915.
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Australian War Memorial
Sgt Herbert Francis Cole, 56th Battalion, AIF
Born in 1891, Bert Cole was the eldest son of William and Catherine Cole of Wellingrove, New South Wales.
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Australian War Memorial
Flight Sergeant Charles Edward Adair, No. 467 Squadron, RAAF
Born in Swan Hill in Victoria on 17 February 1920, Charles was the son of Michael and Doris Adair. He attended the local state primary and high schools, and his hobbies an
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Australian War Memorial
Private John Reeves, 5th Battalion, AIF
John Reeves was born in 1890 to William and Julia Reeves of Lilydale, Victoria.
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Australian War Memorial
Private Ernest Rewell Dalziell, 48th Battalion, AIF
Ernest Rewell Dalziell was born in Perth, Western Australia, on 30 April 1898 to Walter and Lily Dalziell. He was the third of five children.
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Australian War Memorial
Corporal William Alexander Young, 27th Battalion
William Young was born on 21 May 1890 to James and Alice Young. He grew up in Port Adelaide, where he attended the local school.
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Australian War Memorial
Able Seaman Alan Walter Lade, HMAS Australia II
Alan Lade was born on 5 October 1924 in Scottsdale, in north-east Tasmania, to Francis and Sylvia Lade.
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Australian War Memorial
Corporal Fergus Stanley Ibbott, 3rd Light Horse Regiment
Fergus Stanley Ibbott was born on 11 February 1889 in Apsley, Tasmania, to George and Charlotte Ibbott. He attended Buckland’s School in Hobart.
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Australian War Memorial
Flying Officer Philip Brooks, No. 13 Squadron RAAF
Philip Gardner Brooks was born in 1917, one of six children to Albert and Margorie Banks of Adelaide, South Australia.
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Australian War Memorial
Lance Sergeant Fred Lindsay Staggs, 2/18th Battalion, 2nd AIF
Fred Staggs was born on 29 April 1892 in Lismore, New South Wales, one of seven boys and three girls to John and Jemima Staggs. In 1908, the family moved to Inverell.
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Australian War Memorial
Private Alfred Charles Gooda, 17th Battalion, AIF
Alfred Gooda was born in 1895 to John and Lydia Gooda of Inverell, New South Wales. He was the youngest of six children, and lost his mother when he was a young boy.
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Australian War Memorial
Supply Assistant David John Woolstencroft, HMAS Yarra, RAN
Born in Warragul, Victoria, on 25 January 1922, David Woolstencroft was the son of Bernard Woodall and Isobel Selby Woolstencroft.
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Australian War Memorial
Leading Steward Walter Edward Bettinson, HMAS Sydney II
Walter “Wally” Bettinson was born on 8 March 1919 in the Sydney suburb of Marrickville, one of four children to John and Charlotte Bettinson.
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Australian War Memorial
Lance Corporal Andrew Craig Baird, 2/22nd Battalion, AIF
Andrew Baird was born in Geraldton, Western Australia on 15 April 1912, to James and Lilian Edith Baird.
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Australian War Memorial
Thomas Henry Herket
Thomas Henry Herket enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) on 10 August 1915. He was a single man. His age was stated as 21 years and 1 month.
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Patrick Bourke
Corporal Joseph Albert Faragher, 44th Battalion, AIF
Joseph Albert Faragher was born in 1891 on the Isle of Man.
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Australian War Memorial
Private James William York, 5th Machine Gun Battalion, AIF
Jim York was born in Zeehan, Tasmania, on 2 May 1892, the eldest of five children of Albert and Ether York.
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Australian War Memorial
Former Science Master at the Toowoomba Grammar School
Captain Thomas C Hewitt, formerly science master at the Toowoomba Grammar School, was killed in action in France on July 20 1916.
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Faithe Jones
Name of Memorial Corner
This corner is locally known as the RSL Precinct in Ryrie Park
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RSL Subbranch Braidwood
The Ganmain War Memorial Arch/Gates and Honour Rolls
In 1921 a local referendum was held to decide where, and what, Ganmain's memorial should be.
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HOWARD R HOLGATE
Port Pirie United Nations Peacekeeping Memorial
Australia has had peacekeepers in the field with the United Nations since 1947.
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RSL (Port Pirie Sub Branch) Inc.
Sapper Charles Arthur Finn, 13th Field Company, Australian Engineers, AIF
Charles Arthur Finn was born in 1888 to Dennis and Eliza Finn of Canowindra, New South Wales. He attended St Joseph’s Convent School at Peak Hill.
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Australian War Memorial