Today is ANZAC Day, so I thought I'd post some more pictures of the soldiers in the family I posted last year ( Read more... )

Oops, I know it's been a while - I'll post this now since I'd always planned to do this as a separate post, and catch up the rest of the month later ( Read more... )

Nothing much happening right now I feel like writing about. Have been by myself at work the last two days - actually managed to get stuff done today between calls. Feeling the anticipation in the air - lunches and teas and movies ( Read more... )

Yes, this is backdated, since I'll keep this to what happened the first two days of the week.

First: Monday:

( Audendo Atque Agendo )

Another week gone, and the week to be bearing down with the speed and general moving-wall-ness of a freight train. One of those 100-carriage trains we used to get trapped at the railway crossing by (at least we could wave to the people on the Indian Pacific).

This week I got the files I ordered from the National Archives. I haven't gone into fine ( Read more... )

After my post of great-uncle Jack's letter, I was asked if I had the pictures Jack mentioned. So, I asked Mum, and she sent down a few photos (including one of Jack), copies of the postcards, and a copy of one of great-great-uncle Maurice's letters he wrote briefly describing his trip home - he was leaving all the details until he saw his brother ( ( Read more... )

I'd like to share some views of the Second World War from my Great-uncle Jack, the pilot I mentioned in my previous post. I found his letter to my grandparents interesting to read, not just from what he got up to and what's foremost in his mind, but also just the way his thoughts were constructed on the page, when I read I can't help thinking "if ( Read more... )

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.Lest we forget ( Read more... )