Anzac Day Stories

Honouring the brave men & women who represented their country during war.

LEST WE FORGET - ANZAC DAY 25 APRIL

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Lieutenant Robert Muter MC

My maternal great-uncle Robert MUTER, was born January 1894 in Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland to William Radcliffe (1856-1938) and Jane Brodie (1861-1938) (nee SWANSTON) MUTER. He possibly would have grown up in the house at 36 Joppa Road, Edinburgh where his parents lived, according to the 1901 census, with his three sisters, Jessie Brodie, Anne Mitchell (my grandmother) and Jean Swanston. A younger brother William died in November 1899 at aged 20 months...

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George Fedrick

My late father, George Fedrick, who served in the 2/26th Battalion in World War 2. He was a POW at Changi in Singapore for three and a half years. He survived the war and passed away on 10/1/2004 aged 89 years...

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Theodore Morley Spice

Theodore Morley Spice born 1887, Chittering, Western Australia. Enlisted 21 August 1915, Service No: 3969. Theo began his training as a private at Blackboy Hill, Greenmount and became part of the 11th Battalion....

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James Douglas (Doug) Emery

James Douglas (Doug) Emery – b. 6 June 1896, Hawthorn, Victoria Enlisted for WWI with the AIF on 22 August 1914 (Service No: 964). After initial training at Blackboy Hill in Greenmount, WA, Doug joined the 11th Battalion....

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