ANZACs: Boonah brothers in arms

Stretcher bearers crossing no-mans-land at the Hindenburg Outpost in September 1918 from a photograph of a painting by Harold Power, which is held by the Australian War Memorial.
Wendy Creighton

Among the names inscribed in stone on the Boonah War Memorial are those of the three Mahaffey brothers. Two enlisted in 1914, two fought in the landing at Gallipoli in April 1915, all three fought in some of the bloodiest battles on the Western Front, all three would be promoted in the field and two […]

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