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Supporting resources - Case Studies

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Memorial Box 1

The case studies below provide a context for examining your Memorial Box objects; each one is a story of a family from a different state or territory with links to the objects in the Box. 

A portrait of the Lahey family

The Lahey family

Queensland: A family of saw millers and their talented artist daughter each join up and serve in different ways.

Portrait of Brian Pockley

The Pockley family

New South Wales: Brian Pockley saw action in the Pacific before the ANZACs reached Gallipoli.

Albert Holden with son Norman

The Holden family

Victoria: Tragedy strikes for the army chaplain whose son followed him to the battlefields in 1918.

The Uren family

The Uren family

South Australia: In 1917 Ethelda Uren became one of more than 2000 women serving overseas with the AANS.

Portrait of the Cummings brothers

The Cummings family

Tasmania: Three young brothers enlist for the AIF, but the war took them to the skies.

The Clowes brothers

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.

Portrait of Sid Lauder

The Lauder family

Northern Territory: Sid, a boy soldier from Darwin, finds himself in one of the bloodiest battles of the war.

Captain Leslie Craig and his fiancee

The Craig family

Western Australia: Leslie Craig was working on his father’s property in the south-west of WA when he enlisted.

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