Remembering a World War I soldier

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It’s Remembrance Day in Western Australia and shortly we’re heading to Brunswick Junction to a service which will commemorate the 28 young men from that region who lost their lives during the 1914-1918 war. Vince’s great uncle was one of them. He was in a field hospital in France when a bomb hit the hospital and his body was never found. We found his name on the Australian National War Memorial at Villiers-Bretonneaux in France. Thirty-two thousand young people enlisted from our state representing almost 10% of Australia’s population at the time. Brunswick Junction is a small town and was probably smaller then with dairying being the main occupation. To lose so many of its youth would have been devastating and yet the same pattern occurred in a great many rural areas.