Anzac Day Stories

Honouring the brave men & women who represented their country during war.

LEST WE FORGET - ANZAC DAY 25 APRIL

Montague Charles B Ogden and Herbert V George Ogden

My great-aunt, Fanny Plummer, married a widower, George Edward Ogden, who had several children to his first wife, Emma Matilda Taylor. Two of these Montague Charles B Ogden (1879-1956) and Herbert V George Ogden (1880-1953)...

By Annette S K Urquhart
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Clive William Jesse Smith and Edward Kensett Smith(Ted)

My two uncles were in The Great War, 1914-1918. Clive William Jesse Smith was with the Australian Light Horse Division and served in the Middle East....

By Annette S K Urquharth
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Quentin Shaddock Spedding

My mother's brother, Quentin Shaddock Spedding was a Lieutenant and then Captain in The Great War and was stationed in England. After the war he stayed to help with the arrangements of the war graves in Europe...

By Annette S K Urquhart
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Francis Thomas (Frank) Belford

Francis Thomas (Frank) Belford was in the 6th Light Horse in The Great War. He was married to Gladys Frances Corbett and had five children, four of whom were boys. One of the boys, John died when he was 16 in 1939....

By Annette S K Urquhart
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