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191B Heidelberg Rd. Northcote Vic. 3070 Call 61 3 9486 1236
East to West, North to South: ART, SERVICE MEDALS, FRAMING
CENTENARY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR, 1914 - 1918
CENTENARY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR, 1914 - 1918
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Gallipoli Art Prize 2017
Posted on November 27, 2016 at 12:26 AM |
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All the information needed to apply for entry to the GALLIPOLI ART PRIZE can be found on this web page See past winners Download the application form The competition is run in both Australia and Turkey There is also an interesting illustrated article by Lucy Stranger (which relates to 2015) Worth checking out too! Artists present a diverse range of images - what would you depict? |
The Soldier Quilt
Posted on September 7, 2015 at 7:18 AM |
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I am very pleased with the framing of my
quilt. We have hung same and are thrilled with its effect. You wanted to know a little about the
subject. ‘Harry’ Moore, as I know him, was a close friend of
my grandmother’s family in North Melbourne. There was a
possibility he was romantically involved with either my
grandmother or my grandaunt.
Harry was killed at Ploegsreet in 1916. There is a photograph of this area the day before he was
killed showing a very pleasant, heavily wooded scene untouched
by the war. He was laying communication wires for the
trenches when a shell exploded. He was not found. I have been working on a series of quilts
about the impact of both wars on my family. This quilt is part
of that series. I have used strip piecing as the technique
which allowed me to immerse him into the landscape of that
day. I have used the idiosyncrasies of the piecing technique
to mimic the stratified layers that you find in roadside
cuttings. The chaos of the piecing has added to the dynamic of
the subject. I will attach a photo of ‘Harry’ which
belongs to the North Melbourne Library and is posted on Trove,
the National Library site. They very kindly allowed me to use
the photo to get myself started on this work. I hope this is useful to you. Regards to yourself and Elwyn Louise Falk |
ANZAC DAY 2015
Posted on May 10, 2015 at 12:30 AM |
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From Rosebud ... ... to Hyde Park Well we were certainly busy in the medal room at Recherche's SERVICE MEDALS MELBOURNE - check out the posts as we steadily made our way through the promises. 30th March New orders always welcomed, but we can no longer guarantee
completion of medal mounting before ANZAC DAY 2015 - watch for updates
here ... 3rd April Hoping we'll be able to take on new orders for completion before ANZAC Day but we're still not promising yet. 7th April We regret we are currently unable to promise finishing any new medal mounting orders for before ANZAC Day. Next UPDATE April 14 17thApril Last week before ANZAC DAY To enquire if we can assist you before ANZAC
Day please call (03) 9486 1236 or email your request to
[email protected] Pick up from Northcote only. So many people so very keen to wear their medals or wear those of their family member in the many marches held around the world. Quite a privilege to be a little involved in their stories and so great to see the result of our labours being worn on the day. Thank you for the photographs and the stories from the day, appreciated very much. |
Rochester Show 2015 backs Centenary WWI
Posted on February 27, 2015 at 9:43 PM |
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I found my great uncle's photograph at Pozieres!!
Posted on September 12, 2014 at 11:42 PM |
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My trip to the Western Front was planned for 2011. In preparation for this trip I researched my great uncle’s records from
the National Archives and the Australian War Memorial. I knew my great
uncle very well and spent a lot of time
with him until his death aged 90 in 1972 when I was 16. At that stage
I had no idea about his military history only that he served in the war
and my interest only grew as I got older. I found out that he was awarded the Military Medal
and Mentioned in Despatches but no-one in our family knew where his
medals were. I went to Northern France and Belgium in 2011 and
retraced my great uncle’s footsteps through the war diaries on the Australian War
Memorial website. I visited the Windmill site at Pozieres. Located at
the memorial site in a glass information box
was a photo of four unidentified gunners with a rundown of what
occurred during July-August 1916. I was stunned when I saw this photo
as the gunner (2nd from right) looked the image of my great
uncle. He would have been 34 at the time the photo
was taken and located in the area. There were no known photos of my
great uncle during the time he served in the army and the only picture I had
of him was an old photo when he was aged 70. I took a photo of the
information box at the Pozieres site containing
the photo and continued my trip. When I returned home I set out to prove that this man in the photo was my great uncle. After much investigation, and with the assistance
from staff from the Commonwealth War Graves/Memorials and the
Australian War Memorial, the same photo was located on the AWM website
in the photo collection. It was identified as C00450
with the citation below. I told my story to the AWM but they said
they couldn’t change the citation under the photo acknowledging the name
of my great uncle without actual proof. Group
portrait of four unidentified gunners with one of the battery of 8 inch
(French) mortar guns that used to fire on the Pozieres windmill. (From
the collection of 704 Driver
Ernest Charles Barnes who served with the 1st Field Artillery Brigade,
21st Howitzer Brigade and 2nd Field Artillery Brigade.) Over the next six months I came across his war
medals during a clean out of a relative’s house after they had passed
away, the medals had been missing for around 40 years. I already had my
great uncle’s name tag, two rising suns from his
uniform and return soldier’s badge which my father had in his
possession.
I took the medals and other items along with the
photo above (which I purchased on CD from the AWM) and the only photo I
had of my great uncle in his 70s to Recherché Specialty Picture Framing in Northcote as I
wanted to get the items in a display frame
but I also really wanted to get photographic comparisons done to show that
the gunner was indeed my great uncle. The folk at Recherché arranged for
their specialist photographer Alan Lesheim to undertake a process of identification. I then contacted the AWM sending on the
backup documentation around the photo identification process. and later
received the following response: After examining
Driver Pidoto’s service record, official war diaries and your family
photograph
of him in later years, the best we can say is that the man in AWM
photograph is possibly him. I think I’ve explained the stringent
requirements we require before we add an identification to an AWM group
portrait. However in this case we have decided to
modify the caption so that it will read: "Group
portrait of four Australian artillery men with one of the battery of 8
inch (French) mortar guns that used to fire on the Pozieres windmill.
(From
the collection of 704 Driver Ernest Charles Barnes who served with the
1st Field Artillery Brigade, 21st Howitzer Brigade and 2nd Field
Artillery Brigade.) The smiling man, second from right, is possibly
10781 Driver (Dvr) John Pidoto MM, 6th Field Artillery
Brigade. Dvr Pidoto was awarded the Military Medal for bravery in
laying signal wire under enemy artillery fire near Ecoust, France in
April 1917" So after a long process I achieved my goal of
having my great uncle identified in the photo at Pozieres memorial site
and the citation under the photo (AWM C00450) on the Australian Memorial
website changed. I only hope that the other
three gunners can be identified in the not too distant future. Identifying World War I photographs for framing
By:
Recherché Specialty Picture Framing 22-Jan-2014 All
our work is interesting but this job was particularly engaging! Our
customer Anne discovered at the Windmill site in Pozieres, a photograph that
she believed was an image of her relative
operating a trench mortar on the Western Front during World War I. To
compare the photograph of the soldier with the image of this gent as an
older man, we explored a variety of facial recognition techniques. Finally however, with
the assistance of our photographic restorer and
his "old school skills", it was indeed possible to verify this identification! We have now been able to combine this
eloquent image from the Western Front in a framed display together with the soldier's original medals and badges. Another
very happy customer and what a story this has turned out to be. |
Presenting War Service Memories
Posted on September 12, 2014 at 8:44 PM |
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The Centenary of WW1 has awakened our memories and emotions of
the past.
The participants often chose to try and forget their experiences,
and, if they spoke about it, it was only to those who had gone
through the same horrors.
Their descendants are trying to preserve and understand what
remains of their sacrifice.
It is not unusual at our
design counter for there to be tears while discussing the
presentation of these very personal items that mean so much to
their owners. As a picture framer it is essential to have or to access both
correct preservation and presentation procedures, as well as
understanding the nature of the contents intended for display. |
Indigenous servicemen honoured in 2014 Sydney Festival
Posted on January 13, 2014 at 4:09 AM |
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BLACK DIGGERS "To mark the eve of the centenary of the First World War, Sydney Festival
presents a work of significance, scope and monumental ambition, in a
world premiere event at Sydney Opera House. Directed by Wesley Enoch and
written by Tom Wright, Black Diggers uncovers the contribution of First
World War Aboriginal Diggers, following their exceptional stories from
their homelands to the battlefields of Gallipoli, Palestine and
Flanders. An all-male, all-Indigenous cast will evoke these heroic men,
largely unknown to history." Theatre unearths Australia's shame We need theatre where history fails: 'Black Diggers' shows Australians as the lesser Anzacs by Deborah Stone Back History - ANZAC DAY 2013 - A Public Acknowledgement Source Credit
NITV News First published April 25, 2013 and updated on Aug 26, 2013
Indigenous soldiers have been remembered in a ceremony in Canberra
and in the streets of Sydney's inner suburb of Redfern, amid calls to
better recognise Aboriginal diggers' contributions.
By
NITV News "Amongst non-Indigenous Australians, the service and sacrifice of
Torres Strait Islanders and Aboriginal men is very much unknown", said
Gareth O' Connell from the ATSI Veterans and Services Association at a
ceremony in Canberra. Indigenous Australia's contribution to the nation's security has been
present at every conflict from the colonial forces through to the
current operations in the Middle East. In his address to the Canberra gathering, Gary Oakley from the
Australian War Memorial called for a greater recognition of Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander contributions. "This country owes the Torres Strait Islanders a great debt. Out of
all the places in Australia, during WWII, the Torres Strait Islanders
put the most volunteers to the service. Over 95 per cent of the male
population was in uniform. That is phenomenal". |
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