Historic Australia

1916-12-25, KANTARA EGYPT. 7TH AUSTRALIAN LIGHT HORSE. A BUN EATING COMPETITION DURING CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS.

Embroidered silk postcard made in France during the First World War. This postcard features two large yellow and purple pansies. Between the flowers is a robin sitting upon a red and blue ribbon.

Ring band made from an Australian penny coin. The exterior is smooth. The interior is stamped ‘COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA’ ‘1914’. The date ‘1914’ is upside down in relation to the lettering of the text

Battery Commander’s dug-out, Hill 60

1917

- Dyson, Will

Soldier hugging a woman beside a fence

ca.1915

- Cross, Stan, 1888-1977.

Wedding at Holsworthy internment camp, New South Wales

ca.1917

Collection of New South Wales recruiting posters for World War I

Sydney

Collection of Queensland and Tasmanian World War I Recruitment posters

Hobart

Fancy dress parade of internees, Torrens Island internment camp, South Australia

between 1914 and 1915

Many German-born Australian citizens and residents were rounded up during the First and Second World Wars and isolated in internment camps.