Maud Butler’s Anzac Day
The first official Anzac Day Commemoration held on Tuesday, 25 April 1916, attracted enormous crowds in Sydney, as returned soldiers paraded through the city streets, and an open-air memorial service was attended by […]
Maud Butler
Maud Butler: the girl who wanted to go to war
Maud Butler’s daring but unsuccessful attempt to get to the front on the Suevic in December 1915 appears only to have strengthened her resolve to serve overseas. Three months later, […]
Maud Butler: teenage stowaway
Maud Butler was only 16 years old when she first tried to get to the front – and if it hadn’t been for her boots she might have made it […]