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	<title>Australian War Memorial &#187; Ephemera</title>
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		<title>The Cessation of Operation CATALYST</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 31st of July 2009 will mark the end of Operation CATALYST. CATALYST began on the 20th of March 2003 and defined the role of the Australian Defence Force in assisting multinational forces in the stabilization and security of Iraq. It also involved ADF support in the implementation of the country’s recovery programs. Boatswains Mates, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;There is a sunny land far, far away &#8230;&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator>Pen Roberts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Kevin Wakefield found himself in an icy Canadian landscape, many miles from sunny Australia, he wrote a poem to express his feelings of homesickness. Sixty years later, one of the original hand-written copies of ‘My Home Land Far Away&#8217; has now been donated to the Memorial.  Poem written by Kevin Wakefield while on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making a Silk Postcard</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annette Gaykema</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Embroidered silk postcards were first made in 1900 with popularity peaking during the First World War. Cards were generally embroidered on strips of silk mesh by French women. They were then cut and mounted on postcards. Since the completion of a project to get the silk postcard images (all 700+) onto the database, I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To my dear father</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Embroidered silk postcard from the First World War. RC06035 The above silk postcard could well be considered a forerunner of greeting cards now available for Father&#8217;s Day. The simple greeting conveys appropriate sentiments for Father&#8217;s Day today, although it was sent home from the trenches of France and Belgium during the First World War. Embroidered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weddings, Bands and Anything!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 04:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pen Roberts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Memorial holds a small collection of paper napkin souvenirs from the era of the First World War. Printed on crepe paper from Japan, their fragility defies their survival for over 90 years. Here is a napkin printed for the wedding of Lieutenant Colonel Athelstan Markham Martyn DSO, RAE (Royal Australian Engineers) to Miss Stella [...]]]></description>
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