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Jessie Mary Vasey CBE (19 October 1897 – 22 September 1966) was the founder and President of the War Widows' Guild of Australia. [1] [2] [3]Jessie Vasey (second from the left) on the wharf bidding farewell to the departing troop transport RMS Strathallan carrying her husband George Alan Vasey and the Advance Party of the 6th Division AIF to service overseas.
Fewer than 4,000 women and children were evacuated. There were still 80,000 more in Belfast. Even the children of soldiers had not been evacuated, with calamitous results when the married quarters of Victoria Barracks received a direct hit.
Holmes lived in the Victoria Barracks and was educated at Paddington Public School. [2] In 1872 at the age of 10 Holmes joined the 1st Infantry Regiment of the New South Wales Military Forces as a bugler and served in every enlisted rank. Holmes worked at the Sydney Mint and then joined the Department of Works as a clerk on 24 June 1878. On 24 ...
Victoria Barracks is an Australian Army base in the suburb of Paddington in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Located between Oxford Street and Moore Park Road, it is just north of the Moore Park , the Sydney Cricket Ground and Sydney Football Stadium .
Lieutenant Colonel Harry Greenwood, VC, DSO & Bar, OBE, MC (25 November 1881 – 5 May 1948) was a British Army officer and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Victoria Barracks Melbourne is an Australian Government building located on St Kilda Road in Melbourne, Australia. It was constructed in the mid-to-late 19th century as barracks for British colonial forces in Australia and was the headquarters of the Department of Defence from 1901 to 1953, also housing Australia's war cabinet during World War II .
The 18th Brigade was an infantry brigade of the Australian Army.The brigade briefly existed as a Militia formation prior to the First World War, but this was short-lived.. During the Second World War, the brigade was raised on 13 October 1939 and was one of the first three infantry brigades of the Second Australian Imperial Force (2nd AIF) to be f
Victoria Barracks, Windsor; Collins Barracks, Cork, Ireland (formerly known as Victoria Barracks) This page was last edited on 13 April 2024, at 15:30 (UTC). ...