Out of the Attic at Redland Performing Art Centre

STUDENT WORK - CONNOR

Watercolour, pencil, pen & ink on University Cartridge Paper

Remember Me: The Lost Diggers of Vignacourt

The Lost Diggers of Vignacourt is an exhibition

running at The Queensland Museum (South Bank)

5th April - 20th July 2014.

The exhibition consists of 74 photographs taken from glass plates, reportedly found on a rubbish dump and placed in a trunk in a French attic and subsequently forgotten about until they were discovered 95 years later.

The original photographs, of soldiers on leave from combat on the front lines of the Somme, were taken by Vignacourt photographers Louis and Antoinette Thuillier throughout the First World War.  Most of the soldiers are unknown, however, there is a large online community, aided by the Australian War Memorial, trying to once again give identities to these lost diggers.