LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Front Cover: Original timber cross, Belgium Battery Corner Cemetery

 

Front Piece: Private Ernest Alfred Hall – AIF

 

Following Pages:

Hall brothers, Wal, Frank, and Ernest. Beech Forest 1914

 

Parent’s letter of consent

 

HMAT 64 Demosthenes post card dated January 1916

 

Field service post card, 25th May 1916 (front)

 

Field service post card, 25th May 1916 (rear)

 

Handwritten note. “Rumours”. (above)

 

Postcard destroyed by censor’s crayon, 6th June 1916 (below)

 

Photograph post card taken in Estaires (France) June 1916. EAH standing right hand side. The identity of the other two soldiers is unknown.

 

Letter dated 27th October 1916. Section torn out and crayon used by censors (Front)

 

Letter dated 27th October 1916. Section torn out and crayon used by censors (Rear)

 

Lace post card, 14th January 1917

 

Photograph post card taken in Amines (France) 16th June 1917. Soldier standing is identified as Arthur Howell.

 

Ernest’s La Fidèle fob watch which he was carrying on the
afternoon of his death

 

Family death notice, Colac Reformer 24th November 1917

 

Australian War Memorial, Canberra. Panel 171