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$30.00In the rural Victorian Shire of Lillydale the First World War tested everyone. Not just those in uniform serving on the battle front, although the conflict remains the greatest cause of casualties in the Shire’s history, but also for those who remained at home. Buy Now on eBay -
$20.00A week before he was due to go overseas with the 21st Battalion in 1915, nineteen year old Private James Drummond Burns of Lilydale sat down and wrote a poem entitled ‘For England’ for his old school magazine ‘The Scotch Collegian’. Buy Now on eBay -
$25.00On December 8th, 1915 there were 38,500 Australian troops occupying trenches on Gallipoli, facing a larger Turkish force of some 80,000. Twelve days later they had all been evacuated from the Peninsula without the loss of a man and without the enemy knowing. In hindsight their cunning escape had become the only success of the whole Gallipoli campaign. -
$20.00On February 19th, 1915, seventeen year old Jim Baddeley from Smythesdale in country Victoria forged his mother’s signage on his enlistment papers and joined the AIF underage to fight for the Mother country. Buy Now on eBay