Waiting Slider

  • Wilfred Upchurch photo, who enlisted in March 1916
  • Pocket bible given to Wilfred Upchurch by his sweetheart Lucy Lucas in 1916.
  • Pocket bible given to Wilfred Upchurch by his sweetheart Lucy Lucas in 1916. Stopped a bullet in 1918 and saved his life.
  • Frank Bethune in April 1918, wounded in the left foot and knee.
  • Laura Bethune with her children Angus, Malcolm, Helen and Mary.
  • Postcard sent by Frank Bethune to his son Angus after he was wounded on 29 April 1918.
  • Eric, Stanley and Fred Burge who grew up in Burnett Street, North Hobart. Eric and Fred survived the war.
  • John and Sarah Burge in their back garden in North Hobart, c. 1920s
  • The Department of Defence issued badges to Australian women whose sons or husbands left Australia on active service.
  • Envelope of letter sent by Fred Burge to his sister Alma in 1918.
  • Stan Burge wrote this postcard before leaving Cairo for Gallipoli in 1915.
  • Families kept the postcards sent home to them from the front.
  • John Burge wrote this letter to authorities fearing his son Stan had been killed at Gallipoli in 1915.
  • Two weeks after Hedley Venus was killed in France in June 1916, his only child Betty was born in Hobart.
  • Hedley Venus's wife received this telegram in July 1916.
  • Ellie and Betty Venus planted a tree in honour of Hedley in August 1918.
  • Plaque hung from Hedley Venus's memorial tree from 1930.
  • If a man died while serving, Mothers' and Widows' badges were presented to his mother and widow.