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Diverse state (2) Built environment (1) Family histories (1) Land and ecology (1) Local stories (1) Service and sacrifice (1)-
Lucinda Horrocks
The Missing
... Vera Deakin...Vera Deakin's Search for the Missing...Photograph: Vera Deakin...Vera Deakin, young daughter of a former Australian Prime Minister, became a humanitarian pioneer as secretary of the Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau in the First World War..... The operational head, known as the secretary, of the Cairo and then the London bureau was a remarkable young woman called Vera Deakin, who was the daughter of the ex-prime minister Alfred Deakin. ...When WW1 brought Australians face to face with mass death, a Red Cross Information Bureau and post-war graves workers laboured to help families grieve for the missing.
The unprecedented death toll of the First World War generated a burden of grief. Particularly disturbing was the vast number of dead who were “missing” - their bodies never found.
This film and series of photo essays explores two unsung humanitarian responses to the crisis of the missing of World War 1 – the Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau and the post-war work of the Australian Graves Detachment and Graves Services. It tells of a remarkable group of men and women, ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, who laboured to provide comfort and connection to grieving families in distant Australia.
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Isaac Douglas Hermann & Heather Arnold
Carlo Catani: An engineering star over Victoria
... living nearby at Florence Cottage, Mahoney Street in Fitzroy. They were to have six children: Edoardo ‘Edward’ 1886 -1887 Elvira ‘Vera’ May 1888 -1947 Enrico Ferdinando 1891 - Killed in Action in France in 1916 Ettore Luigi 1893 -1967 Eugenia Anastasia ...After more than forty-one years of public service that never ended with his retirement, through surveying and direct design, contracting, supervision, and collaborative approaches, perhaps more than any other single figure, Carlo Catani re-scaped not only parts of Melbourne, but extensive swathes of Victoria ‘from Portland to Mallacoota’, opening up swamplands to farming, bringing access to beauty spots, establishing new townships, and the roads to get us there.