Australia in the First World War - Memorial Box 1
Australia in the First World War
Memorial Box 1
This Memorial Box explores the Australian experience of the First World War. It includes objects that explore the Anzac experience, and the involvement of over 416,000 Australian soldiers, sailors, airmen, and nurses – as well as those on the home front – during a defining period of our nation's history. Their stories come to life as you unpack the real and replica First World War items in this box.
What's in the Box?
The Lahey family
Queensland: A family of saw millers and their talented artist daughter each join up and serve in different ways.
The Pockley family
New South Wales: Brian Pockley saw action in the Pacific before the ANZACs reached Gallipoli.
The Holden family
Victoria: Tragedy strikes for the army chaplain whose son followed him to the battlefields in 1918.
The Cummings family
Tasmania: Three young brothers enlist for the AIF, but the war took them to the skies.
The Clowes family
Australian Capital Territory: As dawn broke over Gallipoli on April 25, the Clowes brothers were scrambling ashore and scaling the treacherous terrain.
The Lauder family
Northern Territory: Sid, a boy soldier from Darwin, finds himself in one of the bloodiest battles of the war.
View and download images and artworks for this box:
Menin Gate at midnight
Will Longstaff
RAN tribute to Anzac dead
Louis Frederick McCubbin
The charge of the Australian Light Horse at Beersheba, 1917
George Lambert
The incident for which Lieutenant F. H. McNamara was awarded the VC
Septimus Power
Soldiers wind their way along a duckboard track
Frank Hurley
