Uploads from bootload, tagged army

2010APR251454

nobody@flickr.com (bootload) — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:00:39 -0700

bootload posted a photo:

It's ANZAC day today.

Every year I try to find photos of some relative who served. This shot is from the AWM taken by Colin Halmarick taken in 1943NOV08 showing a relative (Great Uncle) on horseback in New Guinea, WW2.

Keith made it back to Australia and died of old age about five years ago, The caption on the photo reads:

"... Papua, Port Moresby Area, Donadabu, 1943NOV08, LC "Keith" Trooper of the first Australian Pack Transport Company. Pack horses are used to supply troops, who are in positions high up in the mountains. ..."

The image is now in public domain.

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2010NOV111100.00

nobody@flickr.com (bootload) — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:53:02 -0800

bootload posted a photo:

1943NOV08 Papua, Port Moresby Area, Donadabu

"... Papua, Port Moresby Area, Donadabu, 1943NOV08, LC "Keith" Trooper of the first Australian Pack Transport Company. Pack horses are used to supply troops, who are in positions high up in the mountains. ..."

In the AWM collection, this photograph was taken by Colin Halmarick in New Guinea in 1943, November the eighth, almost 69 years to the day. That's my mums uncle, Keith on horseback in New Guinea, WW2. A drover & expert horseman, it was a natural choice to put Keith in Pack Transport Company.

Keith was lucky. He made it back to Australia and died of old age almost a decade ago. A lot didn't and the ones that came back weren't quite the same again. I'm thinking of Harold, a rele on the other side of the family who spent some time at Changi.

The image is now in public domain ~ www.awm.gov.au/copyright/#pd

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2011NOV191104.10

nobody@flickr.com (bootload) — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:14:53 -0800

bootload posted a photo:

♬ Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr Hitler? ♬

and still on TV, "Took you a while to spot that one, didn't it Wilson?"

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2009OCT111747

nobody@flickr.com (bootload) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:12:50 -0700

bootload posted a photo:

Black Saturday +day238

Check out Renewin' Strathewen
Check out Work @ Dads

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2009APR191713

nobody@flickr.com (bootload) — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:40:16 -0700

bootload posted a photo:

Black Saturday +day73

Local Anzac service.

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2009APR191710

nobody@flickr.com (bootload) — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:40:15 -0700

bootload posted a photo:

Black Saturday +day73

Local Anzac service.

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2009APR191715

nobody@flickr.com (bootload) — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:40:16 -0700

bootload posted a photo:

Black Saturday +day73

Local Anzac service.

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2009APR191714

nobody@flickr.com (bootload) — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:40:16 -0700

bootload posted a photo:

Black Saturday +day73

Local Anzac service.

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2009APR191711

nobody@flickr.com (bootload) — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:40:15 -0700

bootload posted a photo:

Black Saturday +day73

Local Anzac service.

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2009APR191712

nobody@flickr.com (bootload) — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:40:15 -0700

bootload posted a photo:

Black Saturday +day73

Local Anzac service.

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2009APR191704