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8/11
Portrait of Aboriginal Private Harold Arthur Cowan from NSW, Australia, who served with the 6th Light Horse Regiment.
Original image source: Australian War Memorial
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7/11
A portrait of two Italian prisoners of war captured by the Austrian army, in Dornberk, Slovenia, 1916.
Original image source: Austrian National Library
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6/11
Portrait of a German soldier in a prisoner of war camp. July 1917.
Original image source: Canadian Library and Archives
GWICwill be posting one portrait each day until November 11th.
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5/11
Portrait of a Canadian nurse in France, taken December 1917.
Original image source: Canadian Library and Archives
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4/11
Portrait of a young refugee from Évian, France. Picture taken circa 1915.
Original image source: Bibliotheque nationale de France
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3/11
Portrait of French soldier Henri Pelissier, taken 1917.
Original image source: Bibliotheque nationale de France
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A child sharing grapes with two Australian soldiers (Captain John Dougal Cramb and Lieutenant Smyth) on a beach in Jaffa, Ottoman Empire (part of modern-day Israel). Taken August 1918.
Original image source: Australian War Memorial
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A Belgian baby whose mother was killed by a shell. The child’s father is the standing on the right. Photo taken in Mons, in November 1918.
Original image source: Canadian Library and Archives
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11/11
Portrait of R. Knight, of the Canadian Army Medical Corp, in a hospital bed.
Original image source: Canadian Library and Archives
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10/11
Portrait of Private Hector Millar, Canadian War Records Office.
Original image source: Canadian Library and Archives
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9/11
Portrait of a woman on the home front working in a factory in Lancashire, UK. September, 1918.
Original image source: Nationaal Archief
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When a trip to Gettysburg to Pokéhunt becomes an adventure in history because a big reenactment day. #gettsysburg #remembranceday
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I had no idea it was Remembrance Day at Gettysburg. #gettsysburg #remembranceday #civilwar #reenactors
I stood there before the crosses
glowing white in row on row
Everyone a young life cut short
as the names upon them show.
The dates they died below the names
tell of wars now past and gone
Passchendaele, the Somme, and Mons
of battles fought, and lost or won.
History remembers, as it should
these men who fought and died
Whilst for their families left behind
a dull sorrow tinged with pride.
The faces of boys held now in Sepia
who died in days long gone
yet living on in memories
and hearts, still holding on.
Yet despite the hurt and grief here
what with horror makes me fill
Is that when I look behind me
there are more new crosses growing still.
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#remember #remembrance #remembranceday #therealheros
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