Private William Jacob “Jack” Watriama was born around 1880 in Tuo village on Maré Island, the second largest of the Loyalty Islands, part of the French territory of New Caledonia. He emigrated to ...
The First World War Mothers’ and Widows’ Badge was issued to the mothers and/or widows of members of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) or the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force who ...
Compulsory military training for young Australians was reintroduced in 1951 by the Liberal and Country Party alliance Government. It was the third such scheme to have existed in Australia since ...