This August it will be 110 years since Australia lost its first World War I casualty, William Malcolm Chisholm, the grandson of Albury pioneer Elizabeth Mitchell. He was the first of over 60,000 Australians lost during the four years of conflict.
Honor Auchinleck’s father, Tom Mitchell, was a first cousin of Malcolm. Tom wrote about “the pall of silence” when the news arrived at Towong Hill. He described the scenes in the memoir he wrote when he was a prisoner of war in Changi.
Honor will go on to discuss concerns of those families whose sons had been killed in action in WWI, the formation of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and how the community, including nurses and female doctors rose to a desperate and tragic need.
Honor is a Society member as was her father Tom.

Speaker: Honor Auchinleck.