Last year I was lucky enough to be able to pay a visit to the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Listed on that memorial are 2 men from my home town. They had emigrated to Australia, joined the Army before being killed; 1 in Gallipoli and the other in France. I spoke to one of the ladies on the reception desk to ask which panels they were commemorated on and explained that they were from my home town. She asked the town and when I said it, she said that her Great - relative (grandfather I think) had not only come from the same town but had been the mayor at one stage. His brother was also killed in the First War. She asked me to take back 3 Australian poppies and lay them on the town's memorials to show they were remembered in Australia.
Pte Thomas Brinkworth - Australian Memorial
Pte George Fields - Australian Memorial
The Memorial for the lady's relative
