"Mr. G. T. Leggett, of the Goulburn Railway Department, has received advice that his son Willie, a non-commissioned officer in the 1st King's Life Guards, was killed in action on October 14. The curt announcement from the War Office ... simply gives the fact, but the locality where the fatality took place was not stated.

"Mr. Willie Leggett was 23 years of age. He was [educated at a Goulburn school] and [worked at] Goulburn Technical College. He was very popular with his comrades, and his movements in England have been followed with interest by his many friends.

"He was the youngest Australian holding non com. rank in the Life Guards, and had worked his way up by sheer force of personality and pluck, and his untimely death comes as a shock to his Goulburn acquaintances, whose sympathy will go out to his bereaved parents.

"Mr. Leggett's consolation lies in the fact that his boy died fighting for the Empire, and the blow is softened by the knowledge that he was doing his duty."

Are Canberra's Anglicans doing anything uplifting this Christmas for the inmates of the Alexander Maconochie Centre? One hundred years ago today the Post reported "Christmas Entertainment at Goulburn Gaol."

"On Sunday afternoon extracts from Handel's oratorio The Messiah were rendered in the Gaol Church by members of the St. Saviour's Cathedral choir."