Supporting resources - Case Studies
Supporting resources
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.
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 Uren family
South Australia: In 1917 Ethelda Uren became one of more than 2000 women serving overseas with the AANS.
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.
The Craig family
Western Australia: Leslie Craig was working on his father’s property in the south-west of WA when he enlisted.