The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Exterior of the Anzac Buffet in the Domain, Hyde Park, which acted as a hospitality and reception centre for those waiting for returning troops. Note the sign advertising a buffet meal from 10am to 10pm. Civilians and Red Cross workers gather around the verandah of the building which as well as being draped with flags also carries a board headed `Cot Cases' and the names, numbers and ranks of soldiers and their destination of No. 4 Australian General Hospital (4AGH), Randwick. The original photograph is captioned `Waiting Soldiers Return. Minister James. Capt Nesigh (?Niesigh). Sydney Domain'. Minister James is possibly Augustus George Frederic James MLA who was Minister of Public Instruction and Minister of Labour and Industry at the time. Captain Niesigh was a Boer War veteran and a journalist in 1919. The Anzac Buffet was established by female volunteers in 1916. It was entirely volunteer run and operated on public donations. There were similar Anzac Buffets established by volunteers in Melbourne and London. From 1918 it became the main place where families and friends gathered to welcome home returning soldiers.
A wounded AIF soldier receives an affectionate welcome home at the Anzac Buffet in The Domain in Sydney. As men started returning from the front, the Anzac Buffet became the place where men were welco
An AIF soldier returning home from overseas is greeted with outstretched arms by his mother at the Anzac Buffet in Hyde Park. As men started returning from the front, the Anzac Buffet became the place
A group of women in a crowd are a study in expressions at the Anzac Buffet in Hyde Park where relations waited to welcome home their loved ones, including some wounded, as the cars (not seen) drew up
PORTRAIT OF MISS ANNIE EVANS, COMMANDANT ANZAC BUFFET, SYDNEY, 1916-1920. The Anzac Buffet was established by female volunteers in early 1916. It was entirely volunteer run and operated on public don
PORTRAIT OF MISS ANNIE EVANS, COMMANDANT ANZAC BUFFET, SYDNEY, 1916-1920. The Anzac Buffet was established by female volunteers in early 1916. It was entirely volunteer run and operated on public don
A wounded AIF soldier receives an affectionate welcome home at the Anzac Buffet in The Domain in Sydney. As men started returning from the front, the Anzac Buffet became the place where men were welco
Group portrait of returned soldiers outside the Anzac Buffet in the Domain. All soldiers are wearing their rosettes on their sleeves, indicating they were 1914 enlistments and these men were the first
MELBOURNE, VIC. C. 1916. SOLDIERS BEING SERVED CUPS OF TEA BY CIVILIAN WOMEN VOLUNTEERS AT THE ANZAC BUFFET AT NO 5 AUSTRALIAN GENERAL HOSPITAL.
An unidentified Australian battalion marches past cheering crowds outside the Anzac Buffet in Victoria Street, Westminster. The photograph was possibly captured at approximately 10.45am on Friday 25th
Group portrait of women members of an Australian Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) with a kangaroo, at the Anzac Buffet in the Domain in Sydney.
