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Brothers in arms and soaring spirits

ONE was a pilot who helped force down and destroy an enemy plane well over enemy lines and the other put his life on...

Teacher saw boys off to war

THE war years must have been particularly hard for Berwick State School headmaster Henry McCann. Boys whose lives he helped shape in the schoolyard were...

Lieutenant led the way

By RUSSELL BENNETT WHEN Lieutenant William (Donovan) Joynt, 8th Battalion, First AIF, found the men of a company of the 6th Battalion at Herleville Wood,...

Lighthorseman’s Gallipoli fight

By ANEEKA SIMONIS IT IS with great pride that a Pakenham woman tells the story of her great uncle Ephrus Hanley Hugh Ball, who’d overcome...

Brothers lost in the fog of war

By DANNY BUTTLER FOR every hero lauded during the Anzac Day centenary, there will be another thousand Thomas and Patrick Faheys. There are no chapters in...

All game some, some gave all

By RUSSELL BENNETT IT’S almost unimaginable - four brothers, all in the prime of their lives, fighting for their country in the Great War. Cockatoo pioneers,...

The death of Pakenham

IN THIS Anzac centenary year, it’s worth remembering that Pakenham is named after a famous major-general … just not one of ours. Sir Edward Pakenham...

Rise of natural leader

By CASEY NEILL LIEUTENANT Raymond Alva Jeffers rose from humble beginnings on a farm in Cora Lynn to become a highly-decorated World War I soldier...

Artist in action

By LACHLAN MOORHEAD HARKAWAY always served as a constant in the life of nurse Jessie Traill, both before and after her service in World War...

Teacher learned war’s lessons

This letter was sent to Berwick State School headmaster Henry McCann from one of his former teachers, Private Cox, in June 1915. It ...

Leadership forged in fire

Two prominent owners of Berwick’s iconic Edrington Estate played a major part in the war effort - from different perspectives. Prominent businessman and sporting...

Deep pockets for war effort

THOSE who remained at home were not spared from the war effort. Schoolchildren knitted socks, women prepared care packages and the more well-off in society...

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Foundation together to excel Cardinia

A lot of work goes into bettering the community at the Cardinia Foundation, all of which is only possible through the initiative of local...