Unknown WW II Australian Soldier.

[Blue Puttees]

Unknown WW II Australian soldier.

[Donny B.]

Another wonderful photo. A great shame about the "unknown", though.

A couple of years ago I wandered through the museum of a fading, once large, mining town. I was struck by size of the collection of photos of men in WW1 uniform and labelled as "Unknown Soldier From This Community".

I could not help thinking that for a lot of those miners, many without families and the hard times and all, the photo that they had taken so proudly wearing their uniform was possibly the only photo that they ever had taken of themselves in their lives......And we don't know who they are.

Sad!

Donny B.

[kingsley]

Coincidences do happen. Victoria Barracks museum has an old Compulsory Training cadet photo, all únknown'of course. However one of the kids was my uncle (born in 1899 and lived to the age of 97). I have the same photo with the name of the officer as well. My uncle apparently did "time"in detention at North Head for failing to do all his drills, but I could never get him to talk about it.

[Investment]

Hi Kingsley,

I have a question about your compulsory training cadet photo, which shows your uncle and the other cadets.

Does it display any brass numerals, which were worn on the front of their slouch hats or caps?

Cheers,

Invest