A venerated oarsman from South Australia, who used his skill at one of the most famous events in Australian history - the Gallipoli landings of 25 April 1915.

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Verdi Schwinghammer, from South Grafton, NSW, made the most of his war service and became a prolific tourist in between the "war" and "service" parts of his time abroad. He even made the Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 for it!

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The story of a man from Kerang, Victoria, who shows us how strong community ties can be maintained even with half the boys of the town on the other side of the world.

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A band geek and a boy - yes, he was underage - from Darwin, NT, who left the Cable Guard and the Darwin Town Brass Band behind to enlist in 1915. Wounded three times at war, would he come home?

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A man from Bendigo who was described as a coward by some at home, but who had a vigorous defender to point out how much courage it took to do ordinary things like work in the cookhouse.

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A man whose story runs from the fashion industry of the 1910s to farming in the Second World War. But, with almost no mental health assistance to be had, a story that ends in the worst way.

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A man from Melbourne who survived the torpedoing of the troopship Southland, when his brother did not.

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An AFL player who grew up in Broken Hill, Dave Low was one of a handful of SANFL players to serve in the First World War, and the only Magarey Medallist to be killed.

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