ARTILLERYMAN & ‘THE PEACE CUP’ 🏆🐴

ARTILLERYMAN & 'THE PEACE CUP' 🏆🐴

November 1919 – WWI has ended, the flu epidemic has eased, and 110,000 people turn out for race day at Flemington; the nation stopping Melbourne Cup From the Adelaide Observer, November 8 1919); ‘One of Australia’s best assets is the horse. Like the call of the bush,

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S.S. TALUNE AND A DEADLY CARGO OF FLU VIRUS

S.S. TALUNE AND A DEADLY CARGO OF FLU VIRUS

Struggles around the world with the Covid19 virus have  reminded us of the terrible flu epidemic that began in the final weeks of WWI.  Good grief, as if there hadn’t been enough suffering! Then as now, quarantine measures were of paramount importance. There was one South Pacific

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