Fallen Now Forgotten tells the story of the soldiers who do not have any living descendants to remember their sacrifices during World War 1.Each Anzac Day no one wears their medals or carries a photo of them, over a hundred years later they are just a name on a memorial with no family to mourn them.
This book offers just a small selection of these forgotten soldiers as research has resulted in numbers never envisaged. There are soldiers who were brought up as a ward of state, soldiers who named a foster parent as next of kin and the great number who enlisted under assumed names.The only child in a family and the brothers who went off to war leaving their grief-stricken parents to mourn their only children.
The first chapter starts with the Gallipoli Campaign, the following eight chapters deal with the major battles throughout the Great War that caused so much sorrow at home for the families. Their Service Records contain letters from grief-stricken widowed mothers or parents telling the Army their son or sons were all they had and now they are alone. These soldiers lie in countries far away in graves that no one will ever visit.
About the author
Patricia Kennedy was born and raised in Sydney, after a career in Local Government Patricia and her husband John retired to Queensland. In the early 1990s she became involved in genealogy and holds a Diploma in Family History Studies with the Society of Australian Genealogists. This soon led to researching World War 1 soldiers and helping others find their grandfather, great- grandfathers or great uncles who served. Patricia moved to teaching and conducting lectures and workshops on methods and technology associated with Australian War Records. After a move back to New South Wales in 2011 Patricia and John now live in the Lake Macquarie area where she continues working on soldiers from the Great War. Patricia has worked as a volunteer with the Indigenous Liason Officer, Australian War Memorial researching Military History for Indigenous soldiers in World War 1.
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