World War I
Windows into Wartime
This is an abridged version of the Windows into Wartime exhibition, which was at the Western Sydney Records Centre from 17 October 2016 to 24 August 2017
On This Day
1916 military riot in Sydney
On 14 February 1916 thousands of soldiers from the Liverpool military camp took strike action
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The Allies in camp music roll
Rouse Hill house boasts a fine pianola, a player piano, which came into the house just a few years before the outbreak of World War I
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Frank Gallagher’s grave markers
Late in the afternoon on 23 August 1918, Private John Francis Cecil Gallagher, known as Frank, was killed by shellfire at 23 years of age
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Our Boys: patriotic sheet music
The song, written by a young Sydney woman named Evelyn Greig, was one of more than 500 patriotic songs published in Australia during World War I
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A patriotic fundraising memento
This tiny celluloid doll, just 10 centimetres in height and clothed in panels of ribbon, is showing her age
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Sensational car chase
John Talbot Wright was arrested on 11 September 1920 after a sensational car chase through city streets
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‘Escapade’ at Eveleigh
On 2 August 1917, workers at Sydney’s Eveleigh railway workshops and Randwick tramway depot went on strike over the introduction of a time card system