416,809 Australians enlisted voluntarily during the Great War (conscription was never imposed). 61,527 were killed and 156,000 were wounded, gassed or taken prisoner. ‘We Diggers were a race apart.’ wrote Captain George Miller (48th Battalion AIF). ‘Long separation from Australia had seemed to cut us completely away from the land of our birth. The longer a man served, the fewer letters he got, the more he was forgotten. Our only home was our unit, and that was constantly being decimated, and rebuilt by strangers. Pride in ourselves, in face of a world of friends and enemies, was our sustaining force.’ Valuable research by John Paskulich from Perth, Western Australia has helped establish that a large contingent of men with strong connections to Nottinghamshire served with Australian forces between 1914 and 1918 and that 110 lost their lives. This section commemorates their sacrifice and acknowledges Australia's huge contribution to Britain's First World War victory. David Nunn