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Great War

Remembering the Great War

On November 11 every year we remember the dead of the Great War and especially our Australian dead, those young men who, in loyalty to England and with a sense of adventure joined up in their thousands, leaving behind families, jobs, friends and thinking they’d be ‘home by Christmas’.

Stanley Lyons.  Photo from The Express and Telegraph (Adelaide), 15 Jun 1915.
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