by Dawn Goldney

Woodville Business Association members, Trevor Jew and Chris Hannaford, recently discovered they share a special connection stretching back 100 years. Their grandfathers, Victor (Vic) Goldney and Ted Jew, were good friends, both serving in the 32nd Battalion of the AIF in WWI.

By City of Charles Sturt

Arthur Seaforth Blackburn was born in Woodville in 1892. He was the youngest son of Thomas and Margaret Blackburn. Thomas was Rector at St Margaret’s Church, on the corner of Port and Woodville Roads, from 1886 until his death in 1912.

By Messenger Newspapers

“REMEMBER me until we meet again. To Daisy, with best of love, from Walter.” 
For more than 50 years, these heartfelt words were the only link Margaret Billings and Catherine Henningsen had to their great uncle.

By City of Charles Sturt

Francis Herbert ‘Bertie’ Stokes was the 24 year old son of Reverend FH Stokes, of ‘Warringa’ Henley Beach. He enlisted in the AIF in August 1914 and embarked from Adelaide with A Company, 10th Battalion aboard HMAT Ascanius in October.

By City of Charles Sturt

Australia and Malta share a proud history of standing together in the face of adversity. These bonds were forged in the fires of war during the fateful Gallipoli campaign.

by Frances Thompson

2016 marks the centenary of the death of my great-uncle, Private Nicholas Leo McInerney, who was killed in action in one of the First World War’s most horrifying battles.

By City of Charles Sturt

The Lady Galway Clubhouse for returned soldiers opened in the January of 1916. It was located on the beachfront at Henley South, just south of Gilmore Road.

by Shelia (Cecilia) Margaret Thompson, (Nee McInerney)

MJ McInerney was the second of nine children born to John and Annie (nee Eiffe) McInerney.

By Frances Thompson

Evidence of the terrible toll on my family taken by war has been in front of my eyes since I was a child.

By Linda

In the pre-dawn light, the Aegean Sea glowed artificially turquoise. As reflective silence settled over the crowd, the hum of generators and the lively banter of local bus-drivers and stallholders filled the quiet.