By Liz Pidgeon Outside the French village of Bullecourt, a bronze statue The Bullecourt Digger stands in the Australian Memorial Park. It reminds visitors of the role our Anzacs played in the Battle of Bullecourt under the British command in early April 1917. Over 3,000 Australians were wounded or killed in the First Bullecourt Battle […]
Tag: Shire Of Whittlesea
World War 1 Casualty : Alexander Woods (aka Gingles (Whittlesea and Scrubby Creek)
The death of an Alexander Gingles was noted in the Preston Leader on 2 February, 1918 in an article relating to the return of another serviceman from Whittlesea. He remained a mystery as there is no record of a serviceman of this name listed in any World War One archives, but his true identity was […]
The History of the Formation of the Shire of Whittlesea, S.T. Grey
S.T. Grey worked for the Leader Publishing Company of Northcote, publishers of “The Whittlesea Post”. Grey moved from Preston to Gladstone Road, Briar Hill 1935. He was also secretary of the Whittlesea Agricultural Society and a tentative candidate in the 1935 Eltham Shire elections. In 1961, at the direction of the Shire of Whittlesea, Grey […]