Stories from Meroogal

Kenneth McKenzie was 79 years old when war was declared in August 1914, so he was never a candidate for active service. Yet less than six months into the war he found a way to be useful when the NSW Red Cross Society launched an appeal for walking sticks for wounded soldiers.

For soldiers in the trenches of wartime Europe, a pair of hand-knitted socks was more than just a comfort from home.

This framed photograph of Dr Robert Norman Scott Good (1885–1962), taken by one of Melbourne’s most fashionable portrait photographers,...

In early November 1918, Australians knew that the end of World War I was imminent and that an armistice was about to be signed between Germany and the Allies. After some false reports and premature peace rejoicings, the armistice was finally signed in France at 5am on Monday 11 November and came into effect at 11am Paris time.

‘The Mill’, an old Throsby family property at Moss Vale in the Southern Highlands of NSW, opened as a Red Cross convalescent home in late January 1916.