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World War I

Subject
Bankstown Soldier Settlement Milperra
Celebrating the end of World War I
Edith Glanville
Great Strike of 1917
Holsworthy Internment Camp during World War I
McGuire, George
Recruiting for World War I
Religious Opposition to World War I
Returned Soldiers on the Ultimo Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour
Socialist Opposition to World War I
The Fallen on the Ultimo Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour
The Red Cross in Sydney in World War One
The Soldiers Riot of 1916
The beginnings of Anzac Day commemorations in Sydney
Transcript: Miss Elizabeth Killinger talks about anti-German sentiment during World War I
Transcript: Mrs Elsie Collimore remembers scenes from the Liverpool soldiers' riot of 1916
Transcript: Mrs Marjorie Gough knitting for the soldiers in WWI and WWII
Ultimo Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour
War Memorials for World War I
Women and World War I
World War I and the Peace Society in Sydney
Diggerettes : Digger jokes and stories, selected and illustrated by Cecil L Hartt
Emden Gun
Gallipoli
Next of Kin Memorial Plaque
Spirit of Gallipoli
The Blood Vote
The Federal Independent
The Hero of the Dardanelles
Ultimo Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour
Voluntary Workers (Soldiers' Holdings) Act 1917
Within Our Gates
Campbelltown Soldiers Memorial School of Arts hall
Mosman Anzac Memorial Hall
New South Wales Jewish War Memorial Hall
Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children
Anzac Day
Conscription referendum 1916
Conscription referendum 1917
Soldiers' riot 1916
World War I
Anti Conscription League of New South Wales
Anti-German League
Anzac Memorial Fund
Australian Freedom League
Centre for Soldiers' Wives and Mothers
First Australian Imperial Force
Industrial Workers of the World
Peace Society, New South Wales Branch
Randwick Military Hospital
Universal Service League
War Service Homes Commission (New South Wales)
Women's Anti-Conscription Committee
Baker, Robert Walter
Braund, Frederick
Buckley, Thomas
Carlisle, Walter Thomas
Chapple, Reginald Arthur
Chapple, Roland Clyde
Currey, William
Dalton, Maurice
Dolan, Sydney Robert
Doling, Albert Edward
Donald, James Shand
Dryer, Albert James
FitzGerald, Thomas
Foster, George Albert
Godber, Andrew John
Harvie, James Fraser
Harvie, William Coleridge
Henderson, Hugh Jenner
Hobbs, Joseph John Talbot
Hunt, Freeman
Jackson, William
Lambert, Hugh Robert
Lambert, John Thomas
Maraun, Everett Hugh (Bill)
McGeown, Frank
McGing, Michael
McGuinness, William
McGuire, George
McIntosh, Hector McDonald
McKee, Thomas Henry
McLeod, Stewart Jamieson
McNeill, Albert John
McPhee, Neil Campbell
McSweeney, Edmund
Mitchell, Alan David
Muir, Ian Miller
Murphy, Samuel
Newcomb, John Alexander
Newcomb, Robert Alfred
Newling, Arthur Sidney
Pepper, Charles
Pinkerton, James William
Schatkowski, Militan
Scott Griffiths, Jennie
Shearer, Andrew
Shout, AJ
Storkey, PV
Trott, David (Jock)
Willsher, Ernest Henry
Wilson, William Gavin
Wylie, John James
Holsworthy Internment Camp
Archibald Fountain
HMAS Sydney Mast naval monument
Horses of the Desert Mounted Corps Memorial
Last Farewell
Light Horse Memorial Wall 1914 - 1918
Moore Park Cricket Association Memorial Drinking Fountain
Mount Hunter war memorial
Newington College Memorial to the Dead 1914-1918
Pyrmont War Memorial
Redfern War Memorial
Sydney Harbour Bridge Memorial
University of Sydney Darlington Memorial Gates
Woolloomooloo Bay Mothers and Wives Memorial to Soldiers
'God bless dear Daddy who is fighting the Hun and send him Help' 1918
'Sing sing', prison in the German concentration camp at Holsworthy c1914
'Vote No Mum, they'll take Dad next' 1916
'Welcome Home' for returning World War I soldier, Lewisham July 1919
1st Battalion officers Captain George Mcguire, Major Swannell and Lieutenant Shout at their camp outside Cairo, March 1915
A Gas Attack, February 1916
ANZAC Day lunch for returned soldiers, Sydney Town Hall 25 April 1916
Addresses of men listed on the Ultimo Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour at the time of their enlistment 1914-1918
Albert Dryer, Kiely and the Irish internees in corridor at Darlinghurst Gaol 1918-1919
Am I Keeping Him Back? cover of the Sydney Mail 10 November 1915
Ambulance trams, Randwick Tramway Workshops 1915
Armistice celebrations in Martin Place 11 November 1918
Artillery camp at The Warren, Marrickville during World War I, 1914-1918
Burial at sea from HMAS Sydney 1914
Cover of ''Red Cross work in New South Wales : souvenir of the Great War' 1916
Cover of the colonial edition of the song 'Your King & Country Want You: A Woman's Recruiting Song' by Paul A Rubens 1914
Crowds at public meeting in the Domain discussing the conscription issue October 1916
Crowds singing the national anthem during Armistice celebrations, Martin Place 12 November 1918
Damaged funnels of the SMS Emden 1914
Donald Grant, one of the Sydney Twelve 1916
Douglas Grant, draughtsman and soldier, with his ornamental pond and Harbour Bridge, Callan Park, between 1932-1940
Douglas Grant, nurses and ex-servicemen around the World War I war memorial in the shape of the Harbour Bridge at Callan Park c1931
Edmund Resch (No. 5498) Internee at Liverpool camp, 1914 - 1918
Emden gun in Hyde Park 2011
French souvenir handkerchief sent to Mrs Marion McLeod by her husband Private Stewart Jamieseon McLeod 1916
Front cover of 'Diggerettes: Digger jokes and stories' selected and illustrated by Cecil L Hartt 1919
Front cover of the program for the ANZAC Day Commemoration, April 25th, 1916, Town Hall, Sydney
Front page of Universal Service League journal, 26 August 1916
German concentration camp internee life - a heipsiz group, Holsworthy c1916
Group portrait of No 6 Officer Cadet Battalion in front of Trinity College, Oxford, England January 1918
HMAS Sydney I mast and crow's nest, Bradleys Head 2010
Interior of one of the hospital wards at the German internment camp, Holsworthy c1916
Irish internees in Darlinghurst Gaol c1918
It is nice in the surf, but what about the men in the trenches? Go and help 1915
Kiely inside Darlinghurst Gaol c1918
Letter from Arthur Stace requesting a duplicate of his discharge records 15 August 1927
Letter from Dr Biffin to the Staff Officer for Invalids, Victoria Barracks, regarding the care of Private Godber, 4 November 1917
Lieutenant Herbert Edwin Williams (left) and Captain George McGuire, both of the 1st Battalion, Egypt December 1914-March 1915
Memorial to the Horses of the Desert Mounted Corps by the Macquarie Street gates of the Royal Botanic Gardens 6 October 2014
Mr Hughes great conscription meeting at Sydney Town Hall 14 November 1917
New Zealand contingent at 1937 Anzac Day commemoration
Next of kin plaque: Private J A Newcomb, 18 Battalion, AIF c1920
Nurse accepting a donation from a swaggy, Martin Place 30 July 1915
Open-Air War meeting. Burwood Road near Burwood Railway Station. Friday, September 17, 1915. At 8 o'clock. Speakers: Captain FW Kane (recently returned from Gallipoli) and Albert Bruntnell, Esq. Rally around the flag!
Order of Service for the Anzac Day 25th April, 1938 United Commemoration Service in the Domain
Order of Service for the Anzac Day 25th April, 1938 United Commemoration Service in the Domain, reverse
Page of the program for the Anzac Day Commemoration, April 25th, 1916, Town Hall, Sydney
Peace jubilation in Martin Place 8 November 1918 (False alarm Friday)
Private John Alexander Newcomb c1915
Progress of the soldier settlement scheme at Frenchs Forest in the Lone Hand, August 1918
Rayner Hoff in his studio at the National Art School with work created for the Anzac War Memorial c1934
Red Cross stall on Belmore Road, Randwick for World War I 'Australia Day' fundraiser 30 July 1915
Redfern's tribute to fallen soldiers: memorial unveiled in Redfern Park by Mr JST McGowen MLC 28 January 1920
Responded to the Call of Duty: the Carlisle brothers 1917
Soldiers' memorial in Double Bay park August 1919
Sydney's Red Cross organisations. Members of the St. John Ambulance Association at bandage drill at a parade before the State Commandant September 1915
The Blood Vote 1916
The Marrickville 'Winged Victory' World War I memorial, c1919
The Miranda Satire 1924
The Soldiers' Riots, The Mercury, 19 February 1916
The light cruiser HMAS Sydney shortly after commissioning, Portsmouth, 1913
The real issue [conscription], 18 December 1917
The staff assembled on Australia Day, G H Olding Coach Building Works, Parramatta Rd, Glebe 30 July 1915
To Arms!
To the women of Australia 1914-1918
Ultimo Presbyterian Church World War I Roll of Honour, photographed 2015
Unionism in Excelsis - Soldiers on Strike, Liverpool 14 Feburary 1916
Unveiling of Leichhardt War Memorial, 9 April 1922
Vermin hunting - life in the main compound of the German concentration Camp, Holsworthy near Liverpool 1914-1919
Victory Celebrations in Sydney - cover of the Sydney Mail 20 November 1918
Victory Day parade, Macquarie Place, Bridge Street 19 July 1919
Vote No: Conscription takes the Bread-earner of the poor mother and sister, but never the bread-earner of the rich mother and sister, etc 1915-1917
WWI Memorial School of Arts, Liverpool c1940
William Roberts, an original Anzac, and his family evicted from their Redfern home during the Depression 28 September 1934
Women lay wreaths on the wharf at Woolloomooloo where the WWI troops departed, c1931
Women wait to welcome home returned soldiers at the Anzac Buffet in Hyde Park June 1919
Miss Elizabeth Killinger talks about anti-German sentiment during World War I, recorded 1986
Mrs Elsie Collimore remembers scenes from the Liverpool soldiers' riot of 1916, interviewed in 1986
Mrs Marjorie Gough recalls knitting for soldiers in World Wars I and II, interviewed in 1986