The Remembrance Driveway is a 320 km stretch of plantations and groves stretching from the Australian War Memorial to Sydney along the Hume Highway commemorating service from the Boer War to East Timor. #docsmemorials #lestweforget #canberra #placesofpride
19-NOVEMBER-1941, While serving in the Royal Australian Navy as a submarine detector, Able Seamen Thomas Welsby Clark served aboard the Light Cruiser HMAS Sydney II in the Second World War, when the Sydney was sunk by the German commerce raider HSK Kormoran with the loss of all hands. three months later, the unidentified remains of … Read More “The (Formerly) Unknown Australian Sailor: AB Thomas Welsby Clark” »
Summary 19-NOVEMBER-1941, While serving in the Royal Australian Navy as a submarine detector, Able Seamen Thomas Welsby Clark served aboard the Light Cruiser HMAS Sydney II in the Second World War, when the Sydney was sunk by the German commerce raider HSK Kormoran with the loss of all hands. three months later, the unidentified remains … Read More “The (Formerly) Unknown Australian Sailor AB Thomas Welsby Clark” »
18-AUGUST-1917. While serving in the Serbian Army as an Ambulance Driver, Sgt Olive May Kelso King, regularly exposed herself to danger and enemy fire while carrying out her duties to help deliver supplies and retrieve wounded in the dangerous Salonika Front in an ambulance nicknamed Ella, that she purchased herself for the cause. For show … Read More “A Pioneer and her Ella-fant: Sgt Olive May Kelso King” »
Summary 18-AUGUST-1917. While serving in the Serbian Army as an Ambulance Driver, Sgt Olive May Kelso King, regularly exposed herself to danger and enemy fire while carrying out her duties to help deliver supplies and retrieve wounded in the dangerous Salonika Front in an ambulance nicknamed Ella, that she purchased herself for the cause. For … Read More “A Pioneer and her Ella-fant: Sgt Olive May Kelso King” »
8-JANUARY-1952. While serving in the Royal Australian Navy as a gunnery officer, Commander Warwick Seymour Bracegirdle served with distinction aboard several warships of the Royal Australian Navy and Royal Navy, in both the Second World War and the Korean War, being one of only a handful of officers to receive the prestigious Distinguished Service Cross … Read More “A Lifetime at Sea: CMDR Warwick Seymour Bracegirdle DSC and two bars” »
Summary 8-JANUARY-1952. While serving in the Royal Australian Navy as a gunnery officer, Commander Warwick Seymour Bracegirdle served with distinction aboard several warships of the Royal Australian Navy and Royal Navy, in both the Second World War and the Korean War, being one of only a handful of officers to receive the prestigious Distinguished Service … Read More “A Lifetime at Sea: CMDR Warwick Seymour Bracegirdle DSC and two bars” »
17-AUGUST-1915, while serving as a signaller with C Company, 16th Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, Signaller Ellis Luciano Silas worked diligently at his telegraph set, until he fell ill with what we would now call PTSD. but what he is more famously known for is the detailed and elaborate sketches and artworks he created of … Read More “The Gallipoli Painter Sig Ellis Luciano Silas” »
Summary 17-AUGUST-1915, while serving as a signaller with C Company, 16th Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, Signaller Ellis Luciano Silas worked diligently at his telegraph set, until he fell ill with what we would now call PTSD. but what he is more famously known for is the detailed and elaborate sketches and artworks he created … Read More “The Gallipoli Painter Sig Ellis Luciano Silas” »
