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A dubious defence
On 19 October 1921 Herbert Burridge was listed in the New South Wales Police Gazette as a deserter from HMAS Cerberus
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A patriotic fundraising memento
This tiny celluloid doll, just 10 centimetres in height and clothed in panels of ribbon, is showing her age
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Ada Gallagher’s war
In 1914, at the outbreak of war, Ada (Adelaide) Gallagher was living with her husband, John, her daughter, Mary, usually known as Girlie, and her two younger sons, Fred and Frank, at 52 Gloucester Street in The Rocks. All three of Ada and John’s sons enlisted in the First Australian Imperial Force
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Allies’ Day 1915
On Friday 19 November 1915 a huge crowd gathered in Sydney’s Martin Place for a carnival, styled the ‘Festival of the Allied nations’, aimed at raising money for the relief of Britain’s allies in the war
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Battlefield tour, March 1920
In March 1920 a young Australian woman named Dora Walford (1895–1972), travelling in Europe with her husband, toured the French battlefields of the Western Front
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Bessie Rouse and the Kellyville-Rouse Hill Red Cross
Eliza Ann Rouse, affectionately known as Bessie, mistress of Rouse Hill House, was in her early seventies when war was declared in August 1914
