Road to Remembrance | Fragile traces of the past

By Michael Grealy
Updated December 28 2017 - 2:30pm, first published 8:00am
HOME FRONT: An Australian Comforts Fund photograph of a Miss Coll knitting socks direct from a sheep’s fleece. PHOTO: AWM H02438
HOME FRONT: An Australian Comforts Fund photograph of a Miss Coll knitting socks direct from a sheep’s fleece. PHOTO: AWM H02438

Leslie Russell Blake was a talented young surveyor and geologist who had been on Douglas Mawson’s Antarctic expedition before he left Gympie for the Western Front in 1916.

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