Noel Edwards, a Bendigo engineer, was corporal in the 7th Battalion and was killed in action at Lone Pine, on 9 August 1915. The futility of his death was representative of the devastating loss of a generation, and the anguish visited on family and friends back home. Four years after the war, Noel’s mother expressed her acute grief through poetry.

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