Averting wild weather dangers
By DANNY BUTTLER
WITH wild weather lashing the district lately, it’s a good time for drivers to remind themselves of how to act...
Car burnt at station
A CAR was found burnt out at the Pakenham railway station over the weekend. Police believe the fire started in the front passenger seat...
From the Mother country, to a mother
THE letter received from Southampton by Mrs Roberts of Berwick, which was published in the Shire News on 26 April 1916.
FROM ENGLAND
Dear Mrs Roberts,
We...
Mobile-driven crashes
NEW Transport Accident Commission research shows illegal mobile phone use while driving is falling but more than half of Victorian drivers still admit to...
Men were ‘nine-pins in a hurricane’
By GARRY HOWE
JULY 19, 1916, was a day that never left Sergeant Clair Whiteside.
The Reverend’s son from Officer spent a large part of that...
’With God’s help, I got out of it’
Dear Mother,
On the morning of the 19th plans were given out to the NCOs, who in turn had to get their sections and grenade...
Finn was first to fight
ATOLF Akeksanter Aalto had a thirst for adventure.
The enterprising teenager left his family home in Nystad, Finland, and travelled alone to Australia to try...
Battalion belonged to a boy from Berwick
By GARRY HOWE
AS THE Great War entered its final year the 39th Battalion, made up predominantly of Victorians from the Western District, had at...
Captains lived and died together
By GARRY HOWE
THEY were best mates who enlisted together, fought side by side and died on the same day as captains leading their men...
A land of sand and sin
POPULAR Berwick footballer William Watson hated Gallipoli, yet he was one of the last to leave his trench when Anzac Cove was evacuated towards...
Mum’s plea from half a world away
THE soldiers were not the only ones doing it tough as World War I played out in Europe.
There was just as much pain, angst...
Smell of the gum leaves
The letter written by Private W. Watson to Berwick headmaster Henry McCann in August 1915:
Letters and papers are what we are always looking for...
Zauner joins exclusive club
If Play HQ was around when the 1980’s came about…a bloke with the playing statistics of Peter Zauner may have blown up its database...
