Fighting the Kaiser: Coburg, Brunswick and the First World War

Thursday, 21 April 2022

Brunswick Sons of Soldiers B Cricket Team. Season 1937-38

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  This photograph of the Brunswick Sons of Soldiers B Cricket Team. Season 1937-38  is part of the rich Moreland City Libraries images colle...
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Monday, 26 April 2021

Roy Yorke of Champ Street, Coburg

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  2920 Signaller Roy Yorke, 6th Infantry Battalion, 9 th Reinfs. Roy, the second youngest of ten surviving children, and his eldest brother...
Thursday, 15 April 2021

Brothers James, Edgar, Bert and Sam Gay enlist

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Graphic of Australia , 11 May 1917 Although these four brothers were identified in the Graphic of Australia as the sons of Mr and ...
Monday, 4 January 2021

Leslie Kennett of Gladstone Street, East Coburg wins the Military Medal

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Herald , 4 Aug 1917 2614 Pte Leslie Gordon Kennett served in France with the 8th Battalion. He embarked in September 1915 and in January ...
Friday, 6 November 2020

Thomas Turner of Fawkner

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Herald , 9 July 1917 This snippet is from an article about soldiers who had just won Military Medals. The rather melancholy face loo...
Tuesday, 13 October 2020

Leonard Blackwood of Service Street, Coburg

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Richmond Guardian , 10 November 1917 Roll of Honour Circular. Courtesy Australian War Memorial. Leonard Stanley Blackwood is remembered...
Tuesday, 29 September 2020

Rev Robert Thomson and Miss Annie Wiseman walking home from church, Glenroy, 1918

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  E2_3G.001. Rev Robert Thomson of Glenroy Church of England with Miss Annie Wiseman walking home from church. Courtesy Moreland Libraries. ...
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cherylg
I've been interested in history since I was a kid. Over time, I've researched my family history, completed several post grad degrees in education history, got involved in a variety of projects relating to the convicts of Van Diemen's Land and of late I've been very much involved in the history of my local area - Moreland - and in particular the suburbs of Brunswick, where I live, and Coburg, where I spent seven years as a teenager.
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