INTERNATIONAL RECRUITMENT POSTERS

RECRUITMENT POSTERS - TARGETING WOMEN

RECRUITMENT POSTERS - TARGETING AUSTRALIAN MEN

WWI German Expressionism exhibition at Queensland Art Gallery

Erich Heckel, Germany 1883-1970/Zwei mäenner am tisch (Two men at a table)/Woodcut on Japanese paper/purchased 1988.  Queensland Art Gallery Foundation/ c Erich Heckel/VG BILD-KUNST, Bonn, Licensed by Viscopy, 2014.

In light of the anniversary of World War I on 28 July 1914, a selection of German Expressionist prints and works on paper are on display at the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) until September 2014.

LEST WE FORGET

Lest we forget

At dawn each April 25^th Australians gather at the Eternal Flame at Cenotaphs across the country. They gather to honour the legend of the ANZACs (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) landing at Gallipoli, Turkey, where many Australians and New Zealanders lost their lives fighting for the British Empire, far from home.  They gather to remember all service men and women.

They gather lest we forget.

They wear poppies and rosemary and the Rising Sun as symbols of remembrance. 

They lay wreaths, offer prayers and give thanks.

They listen respectfully to The Last Post and The Ode. 

They observe a moment’s silence.

At mid morning, parades of service men and women and their surviving relatives file solemnly down the main streets of towns and cities toward the cenotaphs to pay their respects.

April 25^th 2015 will mark the 100^th Anniversary of the WWI landing at Gallipoli in a place now known as ANZAC Cove. 

BARBED WIRE

SYMBOLS OF ANZAC

PORTRAITS OF AUSTRALIAN SOLIDERS IN UNIFORM - WWI

THE OCKENDEN BROTHERS - BURRA SA

Six of the seven Ockenden brothers served for Australia in WWI.

Read about them here.

JANUARY 1918

Sir,

I respectfully beg to apply for my return to Australia for various reasons. Both of our parents are dead. Five of my brothers have enlisted in the AIF. My youngest brother is 17 ½  years and my sister aged 18 ½ years are now living at home alone, and in a letter just recently received, she states that she is in a delicate state of health, having suffered from heart trouble since birth, and melancholy owing to the strain of our continued absence.

The following is a list of my brothers serving in the AIF –

Pte RA Ockenden, 3rd Lt Horse had his right hand blown off at Gallipoli.

Pte H Ockenden, 27th Bn, killed in action.

Pte CL Ockenden, AFC.

Pte AG Ockenden, 7th Field Ambulance, now in Convalescent Camp in Boulogne.

Pte SL Ockenden, Tunnelling Corps, wounded, now in England.

Trusting this will meet with your favourable consideration.

Yours obediently,

OH Ockenden.

FIRST AID TO THE INJURED