Diverse Narratives

Australian Munitions Workers

The Great War 1914-1918 was the first industrialised war on a global scale.
Bert Shepherd with his Wife Elizabeth and their son Frederick George James

Albert Edward Shepherd

Albert Edward Shepherd , known as ‘Bert’ to his family, was born in late 1880 in Toxteth Park, Liverpool.

American Soldiers and the Influenza Pandemic

Wherever it began and whatever its actual identity, the 1918 flu pandemic hit the world in three main waves.

First World War Despatch Riders and Sergeant Albert Simpkin

Albert Simpkin was born on 28th June 1885, in Salford near Manchester, and before the war he had been apprenticed as an engineer to Crossley Brothers.