Gallipoli – Family history across the seas

Anzac Centenary 2015: A Gallipoli “Everyman” Victor Joseph Sanders

25 April, 2015

The man I am writing about in this year’s Trans-Tasman ANZAC Day blog Challenge (commemoration?) is not a relative. Initially I looked for someone who lived close to my One Place Study, Murphy’s Creek, and chose a man about whom I’d write. At midnight last night, something niggled me to look up men from Toowoomba … More Anzac Centenary 2015: A Gallipoli “Everyman” Victor Joseph Sanders

Brigadier Walter Edmund Hutchinson Cass

17 May, 2012

Dedicated geneabloggers know the joys that can come from making contact with family members through our stories. Recently I wrote about F is for Fromelles and Fleurbaix and last year the Battle of Fromelles: In Memoriam L/Cpl James Gavin KIA. In these stories I mention my husband’s great-uncle, then Lt Col WEH Cass, though the … More Brigadier Walter Edmund Hutchinson Cass