Australian War Memorial – Roll of Honour photographs.
The Australian War Memorial is encouraging Australians to look through their family wartime photographs to find images of the more than 102,000 men and women who died while on active service, and whose names are on bronze panels of the Roll of Honour. For details see:
http://blog.awm.gov.au/awm/2008/04/14/r ... otographs/
Alan
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Hi Alan:
That's a nice initiative, and one that I'm sure will be appreciated by future generations of genealogists, as much as the present day families.
Thanks for posting it. I've added it to TalkingScot Library Australia - New Zealand Research Resources.
Frances
That's a nice initiative, and one that I'm sure will be appreciated by future generations of genealogists, as much as the present day families.
Thanks for posting it. I've added it to TalkingScot Library Australia - New Zealand Research Resources.
Frances
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Thanks Frances,
There are a few photos there now but you don’t often come across them. There seems to have been a special project a couple of years ago where they added paybook photos for those who died at Sandakan. Of over 2000 Australian and British POWs known to have been at Sandakan in early 1945 only six who escaped survived the war. A couple of my mother’s second cousins died there, people she would never have heard of. It was quite a shock when I found their names listed and saw their photos, basically just mug shots but they really left an impression.
http://www.awm.gov.au/roh/person.asp?p=147-23419
http://www.awm.gov.au/roh/person.asp?p=147-26396
Many of those dead soldiers would be long forgotten as individuals simply because they have no one to remember them or no one who cares and there wouldn’t be much hope of getting even 50% of their photos added but it’s a good step in the right direction and it doesn’t matter how long it takes.
And Lesley I think that a similar project would work very well on the Scottish National War Memorial site. It would give people the opportunity to do something for those who gave up their lives for their country. It would fit in very well with the very special sentiment Scots have for the Scottish National War Memorial and the way in which it was conceived, designed and implemented.
All the best,
Alan
There are a few photos there now but you don’t often come across them. There seems to have been a special project a couple of years ago where they added paybook photos for those who died at Sandakan. Of over 2000 Australian and British POWs known to have been at Sandakan in early 1945 only six who escaped survived the war. A couple of my mother’s second cousins died there, people she would never have heard of. It was quite a shock when I found their names listed and saw their photos, basically just mug shots but they really left an impression.
http://www.awm.gov.au/roh/person.asp?p=147-23419
http://www.awm.gov.au/roh/person.asp?p=147-26396
Many of those dead soldiers would be long forgotten as individuals simply because they have no one to remember them or no one who cares and there wouldn’t be much hope of getting even 50% of their photos added but it’s a good step in the right direction and it doesn’t matter how long it takes.
And Lesley I think that a similar project would work very well on the Scottish National War Memorial site. It would give people the opportunity to do something for those who gave up their lives for their country. It would fit in very well with the very special sentiment Scots have for the Scottish National War Memorial and the way in which it was conceived, designed and implemented.
All the best,
Alan