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Canberra’s Summer Bonus Card
20 December 2011 by krikra.
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Get the most out of summer in the national capital with blockbuster exhibitions and family programs at
From 1 January to 1 February 2012 look for the Summer Bonus Card brochure at selected cultural institutions, Canberra Centre and the Canberra Visitor and Information Centre.
Detach the card from the brochure, slip it into your wallet and enjoy bonus benefits wherever you go.
Simply present your card at each attraction for great rewards, such as two-for-one offers, free posters, recipe booklets and parking vouchers, and special offers at the Canberra Centre,
while stocks last.
Stinking Farm Trench Sign
06 December 2011 by Dianne Rutherford.
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Collection,From the collection, Battles, First World War, Heraldry, Western Front
My name is Romy Turner. I am a work experience student from Canberra Girls Grammar School at the Memorial for this week. As part of my work experience I had to research an item, a trench sign, from the Memorial’s collection.
RELAWM06263 Trench sign to Stinking FarmThe trench sign ‘To Stinking Farm & Currie Ave’ was collected during the First World War by Lieutenant Colonel John Basil St. Vincent Welch, whilst he was serving as part of the 13thField Ambulance in Belgium. Welch arrived in Marseilles on 13 July 1916 as a member of the Australian Field Ambulance. He was appointed the commanding officer of the 13thField Ambulance and was stationed around the village of Messines, which would be the site of the Battle of Messines 11 months later. Stationed at Kandahar Farm, Welch assisted in this battle, tending to the wounded as they came back from the front and organising the transportation of the men further back the line to the field hospitals. read on
Hospital Tent at Rest Gully Gallipoli
02 December 2011 by Dianne Rutherford.
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Collection,From the collection, First World War, Gallipoli, Gallipoli Mission, Heraldry, hospital
My name’s Sean Limn, and I’ve been doing work experience at the War Memorial for the past week. One of my tasks whilst at the Memorial was to research a collection item, a piece of an old tent found at Gallipoli in 1919. The tent piece was found at Rest Gully, and is from a hospital tent left during the evacuation in December 1915. The tent was left behind as part of the ruse to prevent the Turks from realising that an evacuation was taking place.
RELAWM00433 Remains of Hospital tent from Rest GullyLockheed Hudson – Boulton Paul Turret Build
02 December 2011 by Jamie Croker.
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Collection,Conservation
The Boulton Paul Turret was the first of the major componemts to undergo restoration, with work commencing in late 2009 on a large pile of turret pieces. Over an eight month period, the parts were individually treated, and the turret slowly took shape. The frame is a complex assembly, with literally hundreds of small brackets, all rivited together to make up the cupola, or frame.
One of several piles of BP Turret components used to construct the turret