Percy Walshe

John Stofel goes off to fight in the Civil War, in the place of a deacon who gives him the title deed of a farm. John returns from the war wounded and insane. Oil is discovered on the farm and the deacon tries to take the land back.

A child, abandoned with only a violin, grows up to become an accomplished musician and brings about the reunion of her parents, a hunchbacked conductor and a singer who used to be blind.

For the Honour of Australia is a 1916 film composed of footage from two 1915 Australian silent films, For Australia and How We Beat the Emden, plus the documentary How We Fought the Emden.

Country girl Anne Maxwell is receiving lessons from choir master Karl Krona, who is secretly a German sympathiser.