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Have you ever wondered what
secrets lurk in your family's
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past? Have you ever thought you
might be related to a celebrity,
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a tinker, a tailor, a soldier
or sailor? Maybe even a thief?
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There was a time when a convict
in the family tree was something
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to hide. A skeleton in the
cupboard you wanted no one to
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see. But today it's something of
a badge of honor to have one in
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your ancestry. But perhaps it's
even more prestigious today to
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have an Anzac in the family. My
wife Robyn's family history can
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boast both for not only does
she have several Anzacs in her
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family but also a fair share of
convicts who actually spent time
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in this very building, the
Hyde Park Barracks way back in
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1839. The story of her family
is one that's shared by many
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Australian families. So join us
as we discover what shaped the
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lives of our ancestors and watch
the story unfold. In a sense,
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it's the story of Australia.
I'm sure we'll unearth plenty of
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secrets and
surprises along the way.
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Seven generations ago in
1838 Joseph Pengelly from Devon,
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England was convicted of
stealing a sheep to feed his
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starving family. He was
given a 15 year sentence and was
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transported to New South Wales.
He was one of 266 prisoners on
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on the convict ship Teresa that
arrived in Sydney in January
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1839 and was processed at these
Hyde Park Barracks. But it was
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nearly 20 years before his wife
and two children were able to
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join him in Australia where they
were able to forge a new life
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for themselves in Country
New South Wales. Joseph's great
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granddaughter Edna married
Robyn's grandfather Robert King
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who served in the Great War
as did Robert's brother Oliver.
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We knew it would be reasonably
simple to find more service
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records on the Australian
National Archives website.
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However, I'm going to get some
professional help so that I can
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really understand what all
these documents mean. Dr. Daniel
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Reynaud, associate professor of
history at Avondale College of
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Higher Education has studied the
stories of many Anazc soldiers
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and will guide us
through our search.
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I'm interested in
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finding out about my family and
their history and in particular
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my grandfather's service record.
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Well, that's easy enough. We
go to the National Archives here
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do a personal search Name
Search Name? King, K-I-N-G.
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One thousand two hundred
sixty five Kings served in the
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I World War. First name, Conrad,
which is a little bit unusual.
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No Conrad's, that's interesting
Now you mentioned family. Are
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you talking about brother? Yes.
Maybe we can track from there.
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Give me a name. Oliver. Oliver.
Okay. Here's Oliver. Oliver
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Daniel. That's him, Weir
Whar, Yes, sir, there's the man.
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Well you can see here
you've got details about him,
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he joins up in up
9/14 and he goes to Egypt
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and then to Gallipoli.
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Okay, now back to Conrad. He's
not coming up. Is there anything
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else you can tell me
that will help me find him?
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Well there is a family story
that he did enlist with his
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younger brother. But before he
was sent overseas, he read some
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religious
literature and deserted. Ah!
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Apparently on reading the
religious literature he joined
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the Seventh-day Adventist Church
which encouraged the young men
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to serve their country but
were morally opposed to killing.
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So he decided then that he would
desert and leave the army and he
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went selling religious
literature for a year. But one
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of the church leaders on hearing
this said Conrad you enlisted
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you've made a commitment, you've
made a promise and you need to
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keep it. So he encouraged
him to return and to reenlist.
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So he went back and enlisted?
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So then apparently he would
have gone back and enlisted.
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Now this is interesting. Because
if he goes back as Conrad King
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he's going to be put in jail
for deserting. So I think he's
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enlisted under a false name.
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Oh so that would explain
why he's not under Conrad King.
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Now false name. With a name like
King he probably doesn't have to
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falsify that. We're just seeing
1,265 of them. What's his middle
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name? Robert. Robert okay.
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And he was not
really called King.
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He would have probably enlisted
under Robert. Robert King. Let's
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see if this is
him. Born in Melbourne.
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No born in Wewor.
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Well that makes sense doesn't
it? I mean, he's not going to
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say Wewor. They'd
soon track him down.
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They track him
down. So this is him.
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This is him. In fact, if we
click through. Do you know where
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he lived in later life,
because here is an address.
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We know that he
lived in Cooranbong.
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That is Cooranbong.
This is him. We've found him.
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That confirms it doesn't it?
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We found your grandfather.
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Ollie could have arrived in
Egypt around the 25th of April
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the day the Anzacs landed
in Gallipoli his time in Egypt
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would be short. Less than
two weeks later he landed in
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Gallipoli among the first
reinforcements to make up for
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the losses during the landings.
While he landed here on the
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7th of May 1915 and joined their
battalion up in those hills on
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400 Plateau. The battalion was
defending a line at Weigelli.
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The They had cut the front line
at Johnson's Jolly. But Ollie
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had only been on Gallipoli eight
days when he got into trouble.
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Having twice volunteered for the
long and dangerous hike to fetch
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items from the store here at the
beach he felt imposed on when
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asked to go a third time
to collect a tin of biscuits.
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He swore at his Sergeant and
found himself under arrest and
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court marshaled for disobeying
an order. He was sentenced to 48
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days field punishment number two
which meant hard labor. But his
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sentence was cut to 14 days due
to good services in the field.
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So Daniel was only
a bit of a larrikin.
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He probably was but I think the
situation's more of an Aussie
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fair guy. You know,
these soldiers tended to see
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themselves as civilians in
uniform and they thought that
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things ought to be done justly.
While he's volunteered for a
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trip to the beach, he's done a
second one. Besides, he said no
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more and then he turns around
and asks him for another one.
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So I think Ollie lost it, swore
at the Sergeant but in fact he
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intended to do the trip. But
it was too late. The Sargeant
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had reported him and he
was up in front of the Colonel.
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So the good services that he did
to have his sentence reduced in
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time down to 14 days,
what would that have involved?
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To be honest, I think that's
the Colonel being diplomatic and
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wise. He probably recognized
that it wasn't a serious
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situation, that Ollie wasn't
really trying to disobey the
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Sargeant. He just got caught
out in a bad moment. So he's
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diplomatically found that these
good services which is just the
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routine things that Ollie was
doing. He was a perfectly good
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trooper. He was fetching
supplies from the stores, he did
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his job, he was basically a good
soldier and so the Colonel found
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a way to let Ollie off while
saving face for the Sergeant.
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So he does get 14 days of hard
labor and what would that have
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involved?
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Well probably any rotten job the
Colonel could think of, to be
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honest. And that probably was
more trips to the supply store
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for poor old Ollie.
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This is why I gallied
where a terrible battle
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was fought on the 18th and 19th
of May Turkish counterattack and
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Ollie was actually present
at this battle. The Turks are
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coming in droves to try to push
the Australians back into the
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sea. They had no cover at all
and they're shot down Some of
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the Australians describe it
as being like a rabbit shoot. It
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was that easy. And at first,
there's this sense of exaltation
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but then there's hundreds of
bodies. There's wounded men that
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no one can get near because it's
so exposed on both sides. And so
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the Australians are forced to
listen to these men slowly die
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and then an overwhelming
horrible stench of these bodies
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rotting in the sun.
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So Ollie's in the trenches
here firing his rifle. After the
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battle what happens next?
What is he involved with then?
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Well it gets so bad that
the Turks negotiate with the
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Australians a truce to remove
the dead and Ollie's involved
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in going out on this battle
ground, identifying the dead,
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having to go through
their pockets and take out the
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identifying marks, letters,
diaries and then take the Turks
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to the Turkish side and the
Australians to this side and to
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bury them. And it is awful work
if you can imagine the smell and
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often the soldiers were stopping
to wretch from the horribleness
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of it. There is an absolute
confrontation with how terrible
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war is at this place for Ollie.
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So here Ollie is really
confronted with the horror of
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war.
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Absolute undiluted horror.
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The soldiers' monotonous diet
with insufficient fresh fruit
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and little water also added to
the problem and dysentery became
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widespread. On the 12th of
July Ollie was evacuated with
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debility to a hospital at
Moudros a Greek island off the
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coast of Gallipoli. His
enteritis was so severe that he
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was transferred firstly to Malta
and then to Britain where it
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took over a year for him
to recover. It was to be mid
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September 1916 before he
rejoined his battalion in
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Belgium Flanders but within
a couple of weeks the battalion
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moved to the Somme's for
the winter. (Sounds of battle)
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Now I want you to imagine living
conditions here. Robyn it's
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winter time. This isn't Aussie
winter. This is a European
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winter. Frequently below zero.
Very wet. Long darkness hours
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In fact, there's very little
daylight. And the trenches fill
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up with water; they're
constantly soaked. They can't
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have fires here so their cold,
wet, and miserable. Just awful.
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So there's no chance of drying
out. When you're in the trench
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you're wet. You're wet. Your
feet are continually basically
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in water.
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Not just your feet but your
whole body. It's wet and misting
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rain on all the
time. Freezes at night
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So even when they are sleeping
they are still damp and...
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Frequently they couldn't sleep
because it was just too cold to
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sleep.
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Winter in the trenches was a
trying situation. By this stage
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the great battle of the Somme
was in its final stages and the
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grinding mount of attacks
through deep mud and heavy shell
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fire were dying away. Ollie's
third Battalion was not called
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on to participate in any attacks
But it was still an unhealthy
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place to be. Apart from German
shelling, the trenches were wet,
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cold and muddy. After four
months of trench duty in early
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February 1917 Ollie was
evacuated with trench foot, a
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condition caused by continuous
wet feet making them swell up
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and lose all sense of feeling.
But the agony would hit in the
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ankles. Untreated they would
turn gangrenous and require
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amputation. He was sent to
Brighton in England for extended
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treatment. It took seven months
before he was fit for active
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service again. He returned to
his unit in France in September
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1917 spending a couple more
weeks in hospital there with a
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sprained ankle. In October
1917 the battalion moved back to
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Belgium Flanders to participate
in the last stages of the battle
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of third Ypres. Australian
troops had taken part in several
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successful attacks associated
with the Battle of Messines.
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And it was here that Ollie met
his brother Robert one day by
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chance as their two units passed
each other in the trenches.
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Well now Gary, my father once
told me that my grandfather met
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his brother unexpectedly in
one of the trenches here. Don't
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you think that's just amazing?
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Well it is amazing. You've
got 100,000 Australians here and
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these two in
different units and they passed?
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Yes they passed. One unit was
leaving and one unit was coming.
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When would they have
last seen each other?
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Well it would have been probably
just before Ollie left Australia
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in late 1914.
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There would have been two
years since they'd last seen...
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It would have been
more than two years.
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Imagine a chance meeting out
here in these trenches. I wonder
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how they would have felt?
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I would have grabbed
him in a big hug but...
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But I'm sure they would have
been just overjoyed at seeing
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each other and the relief
knowing that they were still
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both alive.
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Yeah well I remember reading the
diary of a soldier who had his
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brother in his own unit and he
was saying it was always a worry
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because they were in the
same battles together and he was
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always worried about his brother
So separate units helped to
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solve focus a little better.
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Oh what a wonderful occasion
this chance meeting here and
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what joy it must
have brought them.
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Now Robyn there is one
more thing about this place that
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might be significant. Tell
me. Well your grandfather's a
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Pioneer and this here was
originally a German bunker with
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the guns facing that way towards
the Allies. But when it's been
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captured the Australian Pioneers
are asked to turn it around
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and face the other way. So you
can see these corrugations from
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the corrugated iron where they
poured the concrete so that it
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was now facing in a new
direction. You've got the
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machine gun apertures on either
side so this was the work of
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Australian Pioneers
and perhaps who knows...
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Could have been my grandfather.
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It could have
been your grandfather.
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Isn't that amazing, to think we
are right here where he may have
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been involved in constructing
something like this.
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It's just amazing to be here.
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Soon after at the Battle
of ? here Ollie was gravely
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wounded in the head and
back by a shell and evacuated to
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Brighton again for extended
treatment. It was effectively
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the end of Ollie's war.
Meanwhile Ollie's brother Robert
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was still in Belgium as part
of the Third Pioneer Battalion.
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So then what's the difference
between a Pioneer soldier and a
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normal one?
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Well a normal soldier is an
infantryman. It's their job to
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attack, capture and hold.
But they're not specialists in
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building things. When they
capture a trench they'll dig it
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out but the Pioneers will come
along and they'll put in the
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corrugated iron, the A frame,
the buck boards so that it's a
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proper trench.
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Which we would call a board walk
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You would but it's a buck board
to keep their feet up out of the
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water...
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So they didn't get trench foot.
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Ah Ha. And of course they would
build things like this. This is
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an elephant shelter and it's
designed to keep soldiers safe
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in a bombardment. So basically
a Pioneer has got woodworking
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skills, metal working skills,
or engineering skills. Does that
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sort of fit with
your grandfather.
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I think he was good at
choosing the correct wood for
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So he's a
specialist in woodwork?
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In woodwork.
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Now I wonder if he actually
helped build the underground
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bunkers at Zonnebeke. Because
we know the Australians built
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these wooden underground
bunkers and they were recently
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rediscovered. And he very well
might have been one of those
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woodworkers.
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He might have been if
he was good with the wood.
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He was in this area.
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Then it sounded like hard work
that he would have been involved
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with but not
necessarily dangerous.
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Well not necessarily but
Pioneers were consolidating
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immediately after an attack.
They're building new concrete
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bunkers. They're very exposed
very often. So there's nothing
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necessarily safe about being
a Pioneer here. It's a job where
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many men could be killed.
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So my grandfather was willing
to die for his country but
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not to kill.
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That's a really interesting
point that you make because
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speaking historically there were
a lot of soldiers of conviction
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usually religious conviction who
felt that the gospel meant that
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they were not to kill other
people as the gospel of peace.
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Jesus was prepared to die
to save people but he wasn't
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prepared to kill. And there were
many Christians who are in the
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army choose either medical corps
or the Pioneers precisely for
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that reason...
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Maybe that's why
he chose the Pioneers.
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Yes, given the back story that
he found God just as he joined
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up. The Pioneers is a place
where he can contribute, he can
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help his fellowmen but he's not
in a position where he needs to
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take life.
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Then in August 1918 the First
Pioneer Battalion was sent south
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to the Somme's to join in the
great offensive that pushed the
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Germans back to the point where
they sued for peace. Robert was
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involved in preparations for
the string of successful battles
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that General John Warnasch
and the Australian Corp achieved
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during this time. Robert
was here in Hamel at Warnasch' s
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model battle. Here he helped
prepare the position for the
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attack and then built new
defenses after its successful
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conclusion. Here's the situation
Gary. On that ridge over there
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just over the horizon is villas
Brittoneer which the Australians
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have re-captured. And now
Warnasch plans a battle with the
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Australian Corp to recapture
this whole valley, village of
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Hamel
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right through the ridge over
there. Now what he does is he
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has a battle of all arms.
He integrates, incorporates the
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infantry, Pioneers, machine guns
artillery, tanks, aircraft all
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working in cooperation. And
he breaks through the German
00:22:16.53\00:22:20.34
defenses. Some stubborn
resistance in the center of the
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ridge But on either side they're
able to break through and then
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consolidate on that ridge.
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A perfect battle.
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Perfect battle. He planned it to
be 90 minutes long, hour and a
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half and it took 93. It was such
a successful battle that they
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printed the plans for the battle
and distributed it to other
00:22:38.69\00:22:43.39
generals as a
template on which to operate.
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And so Robert although he didn't
carry a rifle still played an
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important role in this battle.
00:22:50.40\00:22:52.10
He would have helped prepare the
jump-off positions and then at
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the end he would have been there
improving the hasty trenches
00:22:55.04\00:22:58.07
that the soldiers had dug and
making sure they were in ship
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shape. So from beginning to
end he would have been under
00:23:01.24\00:23:05.58
artillery fire from the Germans,
machine-gun fire as he helped
00:23:05.61\00:23:08.82
get this vital work done.
00:23:08.85\00:23:12.99
Then from here, it was following
the trail of the Victoria's
00:23:13.02\00:23:17.59
Australian troops through to
Saint Quentin. His work involved
00:23:17.63\00:23:21.90
building new roads, maintenance
and burying the dead, both
00:23:21.93\00:23:26.03
German and Australian as well
as constructing dummy tanks from
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wood and canvas to deceive
the German troops. But the
00:23:31.07\00:23:34.51
Australians were pulled out
of the line in early October and
00:23:34.54\00:23:38.45
Robert's war was over. Daniel
was that the end of the war for
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all the Australians?
00:23:43.15\00:23:44.59
Pretty much yes. In October the
Australians were pulled out of
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the line and by the 11th
of November the war is over.
00:23:48.76\00:23:52.96
And in general what's the
Australians contribution to the
00:23:52.99\00:23:56.53
war? What did they
achieve by being here?
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It was increasingly significant.
By 1918 the Australians are
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among the elite troops on
the western front alongside the
00:24:03.61\00:24:06.27
Canadians and certain British
divisions. They used to crack
00:24:06.31\00:24:09.68
the line repeatedly throughout
the second half of 1918 so it is
00:24:09.71\00:24:14.48
an important contribution.
00:24:14.52\00:24:16.08
Now more specifically, what
about Robert and Ollie? What
00:24:16.12\00:24:19.52
did they achieve?
00:24:19.55\00:24:20.89
Well they were present for some
of those key battles throughout
00:24:20.92\00:24:24.09
the war. Ollie's at Gallipoli.
He's a third keeper. And Robert
00:24:24.13\00:24:29.86
is present during the 100 days,
the final destruction of the
00:24:29.90\00:24:34.14
German on the western front.
So yes they were there at key
00:24:34.17\00:24:38.57
points in the story. Now Ollie
of course, is frequently sick
00:24:38.61\00:24:42.44
and away from the line. In fact
he probably spends more time
00:24:42.48\00:24:45.41
away than he does at the
front but that is typical of the
00:24:45.45\00:24:49.55
experience of many
Australian soldiers.
00:24:49.58\00:24:51.99
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Well we're back here at Hyde
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This is where our journey began.
In 1839 Joseph Pengelly arrived
00:25:01.70\00:25:08.20
here as a convict. But he
resolved to make a new life for
00:25:08.24\00:25:12.24
himself in Australia. Ironically
instead of stealing sheep he
00:25:12.27\00:25:17.95
established a sheep farm of his
own in central New South Wales
00:25:17.98\00:25:21.72
and became a well respected
citizen of the community. His
00:25:21.75\00:25:26.39
great granddaughter married
Robyn's grandfather Conrad
00:25:26.42\00:25:30.56
Robert King, the Anzac whose
footsteps we've been following.
00:25:30.59\00:25:36.56
Conrad died many years before
I was born and certainly he was
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justified in the old grand
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