Mum’s plea from half a world away
THE soldiers were not the only ones doing it tough as World War I played out in Europe.
There was just as much pain, angst...
Smell of the gum leaves
The letter written by Private W. Watson to Berwick headmaster Henry McCann in August 1915:
Letters and papers are what we are always looking for...
Leckys left their mark
THEY were Officer’s brothers in arms from a pioneering family, whose battlefield deaths in France only six weeks apart rocked the small community to...
Brothers in arms and soaring spirits
ONE was a pilot who helped force down and destroy an enemy plane well over enemy lines and the other put his life on...
Teacher saw boys off to war
THE war years must have been particularly hard for Berwick State School headmaster Henry McCann.
Boys whose lives he helped shape in the schoolyard were...
Lieutenant led the way
By RUSSELL BENNETT
WHEN Lieutenant William (Donovan) Joynt, 8th Battalion, First AIF, found the men of a company of the 6th Battalion at Herleville Wood,...
Lighthorseman’s Gallipoli fight
By ANEEKA SIMONIS
IT IS with great pride that a Pakenham woman tells the story of her great uncle Ephrus Hanley Hugh Ball, who’d overcome...
Brothers lost in the fog of war
By DANNY BUTTLER
FOR every hero lauded during the Anzac Day centenary, there will be another thousand Thomas and Patrick Faheys.
There are no chapters in...
All game some, some gave all
By RUSSELL BENNETT
IT’S almost unimaginable - four brothers, all in the prime of their lives, fighting for their country in the Great War.
Cockatoo pioneers,...
The death of Pakenham
IN THIS Anzac centenary year, it’s worth remembering that Pakenham is named after a famous major-general … just not one of ours.
Sir Edward Pakenham...
Rise of natural leader
By CASEY NEILL
LIEUTENANT Raymond Alva Jeffers rose from humble beginnings on a farm in Cora Lynn to become a highly-decorated World War I soldier...
Artist in action
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
HARKAWAY always served as a constant in the life of nurse Jessie Traill, both before and after her service in World War...
2025 Gazette Person of the Year: Mar and Moses Riek
Crime dominated the political agenda. Fear drove policy. Tragedy drove headlines. Amid it all, two retired gang members turned youth mentors, are proving that...
