Our Wartime Heroes
Stan was one of the first from WA to enlist and one of the first to land on Gallipoli.
Rose survived a perilous sea voyage to New Guinea.
Elma helped established the hospital on Lemnos. She nursed large numbers of soldiers wounded on Gallipoli. The conditions were basic difficult, to say the least.
Jack was a teacher who wrote to his students to prepare them for the dangers to come.
Jack fought in some of the worst engagements of WWI and was wounded at Pozieres.
In 1915, Matron Jesse Clifton was quickly snapped up by the Australian Army Nursing Service and sent overseas. The nurses' workload was staggering, including treating the wounded coming from Gallipoli.
From South Africa to Gallipoli, Tom Shaw volunteered.
Having survived wounding then illness, by 1918, former dairy hand Tom Harrison was fighting in Franvillers, France.
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.
