Edward 'Ted' Sunderland grew up with an older brother and five sisters on Pine Farm, a property near Dubbo.
On October 18, 1914, he volunteered to serve overseas in the Australian Imperial Forces in World War One. In 1915 he survived Gallipoli, then the Battle of the Somme in 1917, but earlier that year -- during a German offensive -- he was gassed. He spent some time in a field ho...