1/31Arthur and his wife Jean Ham reuniting after the war. Picture: Sent in by daughter Robin Jones
Anzac Day love stories of the ages
Through the horrors of war bursts stories of love, passion and survival. The Sunday Telegraph is proud to share with you images shared with us to express our gratitude to a group of people who understood duty, defined bravery and loved their country.
2/31“A photo of my great grandfather Sgt Major Herbert Denton. He served with the Wellington Mounted Rifles (NZ) in WW1. He was wounded in the Palestine campaign and returned to NZ after the war. The photo is with my teenage grandmother on his return.” Picture: Supplied by Andrew Phillips
3/31“A photo of my mother, Noreen Scott, in her backyard at Ashfield reading the latest letter from my Dad, Kevin Neylan, on service while they were engaged in 1943.” Picture: Supplied by Adrian Neylan
4/31“This is Iris Terry (nee Pfitzner) with an unknown soldier taken in 1943. Iris is 103 years old in May and is the oldest veteran in the Fairfield RSL and because of the coronavirus will be unable to attend the service this year but will proudly wear her service medals at the Rosary village in Yennora where she loves.” Picture: Supplied by Tony Holloway
5/31“This photo was taken at Circular Quay in Sydney in 1941. It shows my grandfather, Herbert Brooks, my grandmother Eva, mum, Eva June, and my Uncle Jeff. My grandfather was heading overseas but had promised to take June and Jeff to the zoo first.” Picture: Supplied by Kerrie McIntyre
6/31“Photo of my parents David Daniels and Marie Daniels. They were married on June 13, 1943. David was in the 2/11 Field Ambulance at Tobruk and Marie was in the AWAS and delivered mail to the Kuttabul the night it was torpedoed in Sydney Harbour. I am a Vietnam veteran.” Picture: Supplied by Geoff Daniels
7/31“Photo of my grandfather. He served with the army in the Middle East, Palestine we think, about 1940 during WWII. After his tour of duty he was stationed at both Sydney and later Townsville. His name is James Fredrick Watts and is pictured with wife Mary, (nee Many), and children Jimmy and Colleen.” Picture: Supplied by Steve Watts
8/31Edward Copeland Beacroft, a career soldier, who served in New Guinea, Korea, Brunei, Borneo and Vietnam with his wife (Edna Anne Ryan), wedding day on June 9, 1945. She also served as a nursing sister during WWII.
9/31“My parents, Una and Ellis Thompson from Goulburn, about to go to the Anzac Day march, 1965. As you can see, always dressed up when going out. My mum would have been 100 a week after Anzac Day, 2020.” Picture: Judy White
10/31“(From left) My dad Bob Egenton; my Pa Sgt Morris W Egenton (MM); my Nan Ivy Egenton. Pa (Morris) was awarded the Military Medal during WW1 by King George V. During WWII he was in charge of anti aircraft guns on the pylons of Sydney Harbour Bridge. Photo taken in George St, Sydney some time around 1942.” Picture: Supplied by Andrew Egenton
11/31“My parents Lily and Arthur Roberts. Arthur served in New Guinea WWII. He was in the 14th Field Regiment.” Picture Supplied by Sandra Yeo
12/31“A photo of my mother Noreen Scott as bridesmaid in 1942 to my Aunty Mary and Uncle Jack outside St Vincent’s Church, Ashfield. Note the sandbags at the front door.” Picture: Supplied by Adrian Neylan
13/31“This photo is of myself Desiree Green (Harms) and my husband Geoffrey Green in Melbourne. I was in the WRAAC (Women's Royal Australian Army Corps). My husband was a National Serviceman in the Provost Corps. We met in 1967 and married in December 1968 (still married). I had to leave the Army as married women couldn't stay in the Army at that time. My husband was a NSW Policeman before being called up and he went back to the force.” Picture: Supplied by Desiree Green
14/31“Photos of my husband, Douglas Wigg, who discharged from the ADF last year after 40 years service. He served in the Royal Australian Engineers and the Royal Australian Corps of Transport. Doug served in East Timor and retired at the rank of Warrant Officer Class One.” Picture: Supplied by Roberta Wigg
15/31“My parents, Wal and Glad Hart in 1942. My dad Wal, was in the permanent RAAF when World War II was declared. He served in various locations including Darwin and New Guinea. Dad died in 1979.” Picture: Suppled by Leonie O’Malveney
16/31“My dad, Tom Picot was a proud Digger. In 2004 he received a OAM for service to Diggers. He passed away in May 2017 at 101 years old and was lucky enough to attend the Anzac Day march accompanied by two of his sons Bob and Glen. Pictured is Tom and Eileen on their wedding day (Mum was in the land army).” Picture: Maree Bootle
17/31“The photo is my parents Sgt. C.C.Mariner and Lt. K.I. Tinson. WWII. They married after the war in 1945. LEST WE FORGET.” Picture: Supplied by Michael Mariner
18/31“Picture of my father Dudley Burtenshaw and mother Gladys Burtenshaw and me in 1943.” Picture: Supplied by Lyall Burtenshaw
19/31“My grandfather John Stephenson NX112440 Sgt Army ordnance Corps. This is him with his new wife Marie on their wedding day.” Picture: Supplied by Melissa Forrest.
20/31“My grandfather James Dunn and my grandmother Doris Dunn. My grandfather was born in 1922 in Dubbo. My grandmother was born in 1923 at Oberon and met at Lithgow in 1940. This photo was taken on their wedding in 1942 while he was serving in the Australian Army. He was posted in New Guinea for WWII and served in the 2nd 7th commando battalion. They lived in country NSW and then took up residence in Blacktown in the late 1950s. He passed away 20 years ago but his wife Doris is still alive at the age of 97. She still lives in her home.” Picture: Supplied by Leanne Charalambous
21/31“Photo at Alfred St, Circular Quay of my father and mother Dudley and Gladys Burtenshaw; my grandparents Percy and Elsie Burtenshaw; cousin Edmund Elvers and myself Lyall Burtenshaw in 1944.” Picture: Supplied by Lyall Burtenshaw
22/31“Charles and Winifred Cole WWII Anzac Day commemorations. They are of my father, Charles Cole, his father Victor Cole and my great uncle Abel Richmond Sheath who was awarded the Military Cross at Buckingham Palace in 1917 only to be killed by a German sniper in 1918. Lest We Forget.” Picture: Supplied by Phillip Cole
23/31“My mum Yvonne Wheatley and dad Wilfred Wheatley taken in 1944 in India.” Picture: Supplied by Doug Wheatley
24/31“My father Wilkie Desmond Collins aka Bill or Des, and my mother Norma Collins nee Finn circa 1941. Dad was one of a couple of survivors of the Tol Plantation Massacre carried out by the Japanese on February 4, 1942 in Rabaul.” Picture: Supplied by Michael Collins
25/31“Ralph and Beryl Horner married during WWII. They had lived through the Great Depression as teenagers and Ralph was born during the Spanish Flu epidemic 1919. Son Warwick is inspired by the tenacity and hopes of those now passed.” Picture: Supplied by Warwick Horner
26/31“A photo of my parents John Naylor and Irene Naylor taken some time during WWII when dad was in New Guinea for some time. This photo was taken in Wickham, a suburb of Newcastle, before I was born.” Picture: Denese Croese
27/31“Matthew Campbell Learmonth meeting daughter June (Bricknell), aged 13 months, for the first time at grandparents’ home, Carrington St, Concord. I didn't like the hat so I'm told.” Picture: Supplied by June Bricknell
28/31“My parents, Alan and Muriel (nee Faint) Griffiths, were in the Air Force during WWII and met when they were based in Wagga Wagga and married in Sydney in 1944. During the war dad was in 31 Beaufighter Squadron and mum was in the WAAAF. Their respective fathers fought in WWI. My paternal grandfather, Percy Griffiths, signed up at the age of 34 and was in the 1st Light Horse regiment, fought and was wounded in Gallipoli before going to the western front. My maternal grandfather, Joseph Faint, signed up aged 19 and started in the 54th Infantry Battalion and later transferred to the 33rd Battalion 1st AIF and fought on the western front. His older brother, my great uncle Leslie Faint, was a Lieutenant in the 33rd Battalion and was awarded the Military Cross. Both of my grandfathers died before I was born. My father died in 1999 and mother in 2017, aged 94.” Picture: Supplied by Jan Harkins
29/31“Private Fred Snowdon of 1st/17th Battalion, with his wife Alice and daughter Lillian. Missing in action but later found and reunited.” Picture: Supplied by granddaughter Marilyn Fox
30/31“Jim Monk is my father and served on HMAS STUART in the Pacific in WWII. Grew up in Brisbane and moved to Sydney after the war and married my mother.” Picture: Supplied by Trevor Monk
31/31“John and Carmen Gabriel in 1971 during John’s National Service days.” Picture: Supplied by Carmen Gabriel