H17949
Photograph H17949 Period 1920-1929Gulgong, New South Wales. A WW1 War Memorial Band Rotunda which was built in the late 1920s in ANZAC Park. Each of the five upright pillars has one letter of the word ANZAC on it.
HOBJ5602 Accession Number: HOBJ5602
Description
Korea. 11 December 1954. Training exercises in Korea take the men of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), through some strange territory. Here a section of 1RAR, with the Bren gunner, Private (Pte) Les Doohan of Ryde, NSW (right foreground), giving covering fire, advances through an old burial ground. These cemeteries are generally located on the outskirts of villages but war has so altered the face of Korea that all traces of this former community has been obliterated. In Korean folk lore the two upright pillars are sentinels guarding the plot, one representing a fighting man or soldier and the other a wise man. The flat stone tablet in the fort of the grave mound is a table on which offerings of new rice and wine are placed by relatives of the buried person. This ceremony takes place on 15 August each year, the end of the harvest season. Pictured, left to right: Unknown; Pte Graham Lambert of North Summit, SA, and Pte Fred Podbury of Ballarat, Vic.
Details
Accession Number
HOBJ5602
Photographer
Phillip Oliver Hobson
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Format: 120 (roll film)
Support: Acetate
Format: 120 (roll film)
Support: Acetate
Date Made
11 December 1954
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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