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Stitching lives back together: men’s rehabilitation embroidery in WWI

Albert Biggs was a Sydney-born laborer who joined the Australian Imperial Force as Alfred Briggs on August 22, 1915. He was 23 years old when he arrived at Gallipoli. Biggs, who was part of the second reinforcements of the 20th battalion, fought to protect the Anzac’s trenches along the ridge called Russell’s Top. This is […]