Friday 25 April 2014

EARLY 20TH CENTURY AUSTRALAN PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS


How could you use ideas from these early photographic portraits in your mail art?
These images are taken from 6"x4" glass plate negatives of people who found themselves in the NSW penal system soon after WWI.
Did any of these people serve in the armed forces?
They would certainly have close connections with people who did.
Perhaps the war had something to do with them falling on hard times.














WWI CORRESPONDENCE



Vern, Bert, Percy & Viv Smythe
(image from Smythe Family Letters website)
Below are some links to websites that contain references to personal correspondence from WWI.



State Library of Victoria (ERGO)

The IN THEIR HONOUR website is a searchable database
which lists all soldiers killed in WWI & WWII.
You may have a relative you might want to search for.

Tuesday 22 April 2014

AUSTRALIAN HORSES (WALERS) OF WWI


Of the 136,000 walers (the general term used for Australian horses used in WWI) only 1 returned to Australia at the end of the conflict.  See his story here.

Find a bit of history about the Australian Light Horse herehere and here





Australian Light Horse in the Snow, France 1917





WOMEN OF WORLD WAR I