100 years on, a small town remembers the men who never returned

Gundagai in NSW suffered unimaginable losses in the first world war, where the grief – and names of those killed – live on

The ceremony at Gundagai, every 11th of November, takes place among the sporting fields. It is something that Jim Sharman thinks about a lot.

Sharman, the president of the Gundagai RSL, is in charge of organising the ceremony every year, but Sunday’s 100th anniversary of the armistice gives it a special significance.

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