wartime

Miraculously, the bullets went around George when his transport was strafed in Greece. His luck ran out later though and he was wounded.

Wounded, strafed, taken prisoner, George Baxter endured starvation and dreadful conditions. Then on April Fool's Day, came the sound of tanks approaching.

The bloodiest battle of the Western Front. Dick Clarke was in the forefront with the 11th Battalion.

Gunshots couldn't stop him. Dick Clarke longed for a return to his simple life on the farm at home.

A soldier with incredible luck, Dick survived several gunshot wounds to the head and body. He was picked as the leader of a special mission.

Back home to a hero's welcome, Dick was not about to feel sorry for himself. People were astonished by his tenacity.

When it came time to land on Gallipoli, George Rosevear and the 10th Light Horsemen were crestfallen to realise that their horses would not be going with them.

When it came time to land on Gallipoli, the Light Horsemen were crestfallen to realise that their horses would not be going with them.

The voices and the stories of Bunbury men and women in a collection of heart rending and heartwarming stories.
A co-production of Sharon Kennedy and the Bunbury Oral History Group.
Additional material and research by military historian Jeffery Peirce.