"So my younger brother enlisted straight away, would it be June 1914.... and my older brother was up, he was in the bank, and he was up the north coast at the time and he was right up near the Queensland border and if he'd have joined straight away he would have had to go to Brisbane to be in this, but of course he wanted to come home and he applied for to be returned to Sydney if possible and so when he got back to Sydney he thought well he better stay on deck in the bank just for a while and then he enlisted and my brother Leon he went to New Guinea and then Dad had enlisted and gone up to New Guinea and then Leon was brought back home and he was on his way to Gallipoli as, in the 19th Battalion as reinforcements, he wasn't at the landing thank goodness and then my brother enlisted and he was on the way to Egypt when Leon wrote home and don't let Rex enlist [laughter] because you know he was experiencing the nasty things that happen in the war. But anyway Rex went to Egypt and was training for the artillery. He was a signaller in the artillery, very good at decoding messages. Then Leon was wounded on Gallipoli. The bullet went right through his arm and into his leg and of course he was sent to England and from there he went to France. He was a Sergeant at Gallipoli but when he went to France he was a Lieutenant."

ANITA RYALL