Military Monday:- Trans Tasman Anzac Day Blog Challenge review - roll of honour

The East Coast Bays Cenotaph Anzac Day for me, means Anzac Day services and family time. A time of commemoration of the fallen, and for thos...

ANZAC DAY 2013 & 1926

This ANZAC Day we remember all those who have fallen in war and pay tribute to their service They shall grow not old, as we that are left gr...

Military Monday: World War One memorials in Symonds St Cemetery

Although Symonds Street Cemetery was closed to new burial plots in 1886, people continued to be buried there if they had family already the...

A Gallipoli story - David Chestnut a “local hero” before and after WWI :

In August 1915, Ryde local paper, The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers’ Advocate printed : 'Private David Chestnut of Ryde is now offi...