Historical information

Both Albums contain the Thomas & May Staley Collection WW1.

Besides photos & postcards there are numerous other cards, articles from Newspapers, certificates covering numbers of people.

There are photos re Soldiers with no identification, others with names & Regimental Numbers easily identifiable and can be matched to other photos and postcards.

Easily identified are Thomas Staley (served in WW1 & WW2) May Staley (Maiden name “EVERY”) Her 3 brothers Francis, George and Ernest Every. Miss Thomas (Janey) is May Staleys Auntie. George and Ernest served in WW1. Many of the Soldiers come from around the Bendigo area notably White Hills and Epsom. Many are in the same Unit notably the 29th BN AIF.
Thomas’s two sons WW2 are in the collection as well.
Due to the content range of the Albums and local area the collection has been sorted into different categories as much as possible.

There are 46 Catalogue No's, refer Catalogue No 10758.2P for all the collection to come up.

Physical description

.1) Album. The front and back covers have newspaper articles glued in, they cover Poetry re the War eg: “A bit of Khaki”, “Here comes a Soldier”, “Bravo Australia”, “The wail of Belgium”, “The Prince of Peace”, “Our fallen heroes”. There are 3 articles re Pte George Every titled, A true Comrade”, “Welcome Home”, “Citizens Welcome”. The majority of the photos were related to WW1.
.2) This album has space for 2 photos per page, there are 87postcards in place which relate to holidays in France and England mostly pre WW1. There are 21 lose photos and cards relating the same. Other items and various cards re WW1 were also in the album.