" I freely give consent for my son Herbert Stanley to voulunteer for service "
Almost exactly a year later, Janet Herbert would begin receiving a pension of One Pound a week from a grateful Nation, in recognition of her sons death.
From: " GOODBYE COBBER, GOD BLESS YOU " by John Hamilton,
Private Martin craved a letter. Across the top of his letter he scrawled:
"Write soon. I have received no letters since I left Victoria and I have been writing often."
A little over a fortnight later he died from heart failure, probably caused by enteric fever, and was buried at sea.
His enlistment papers gave his age as 18. At the time of his death he was 14 years and nine months.
From: "Gallipoli" by Les Carlyon.
In rememberance of the sacrifices of those 60,000 Australians and their families,
Lest we forget ...........
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