Photo - Lone Pine
A few years ago, like many Australians I went to the cinema to view Russell Crowe s The Water Diviner . The story line is about a father, an Australian farmer, who lost his three sons on Gallipoli in that disastrous military campaign in 1915.
What fascinated me, amongst many things in the movie, was the work of the Commonwealth War Graces Commission in 1919-20 on Gallipoli as the team painstakingly identified from old military maps exactly where the various battles took place and then finding the bodies and dog tags.
We discovered through the Turkish officials that this identification of the dead was something new to war fare, whereupon in the past, huge pits were dug, the human dead along with the dead animals and lime and then covered with dirt which was soon converted into a huge fertiliser pit.
Photo - All Night Sitter by Mark Tronson
My parents were dairy farmers at Crediton (Eungella) on the great dividing range west of Mackay Queensland and moved into the Mackay township in 1955 after my father suffered a horse accident during a cyclone when herding ion the milking cows. His story can be read in his diaries held on both our site and the Mackay library.
On one occasion I recall welcoming friends off the Sunlander passenger train at Mackay Railway Station and watching this beautiful gleaming blue and white diesel engine pull to a stop and my heart was sold. I recall at primary school at North Mackay State loving the page in the text book where the Sunlander was pictured.
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