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Category Archives: World War 1
Violet Jessop ~ Miss Unsinkable
Day 363 of Colourisation Project – May 5 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Lucky or unlucky? Either way she lived to tell the story through her compelling memoirs titled, … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, History, Opus Loredana, Photography, Women, Women writers, World War 1
Tagged HMHS Britannic, HMS Hawke, Loredana Crupi, Miss Unsinkable, OpusLoredana, Red Star Line, RMS Olympic, RMS Titanic, Titanic, Titanic Survivor: The Memoirs of a Stewardess, Violet Jessop, White Star Line
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In Flanders Fields ~ We are the Dead
Day 361 of Colourisation Project – May 3 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Inspired by the death of his friend in combat, Canadian Officer, Major John McCrae composed one … Continue reading
Albert Jacka – Super ANZAC
Day 354 of Colourisation Project – April 26 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. He was described by Australia’s official war historian, Charles E.W. Bean, as ‘Australia’s greatest front-line soldier’. … Continue reading
Unable to Vote But Eligible to Die ~ Lest We Forget
Day 353 of Colourisation Project – April 25 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that the following contains an image … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Colorization, Colourisation, History, Opus Loredana, Photography, World War 1
Tagged Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Aboriginal Veterans South Australia, ANZAC, ANZAC Day, Australia, Bedford Park Sanatorium, Loredana Crupi, Miller Mack, Ngarrindjeri, Opus Loredana, Private Miller Mack, world war 1
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Rupert Brooke ~ The Soldier Poet
Day 351 of Colourisation Project – April 23 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. The Turks didn’t get him…a mosquito did. English poet, Rupert Chawner Brooke, best known for his … Continue reading
Harry Chauvel – A Born Cavalry Officer
Day 344 of Colourisation Project – April 16 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Divisional armourers had been ordered to sharpen all bayonets. On October 31, 1917, Lieutenant General, Sir … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Colorization, Colourisation, History, Photography, World War 1
Tagged Australia, Australian Imperial Force, Battle of Beersheba, Beersheba, Gallipoli., Harry Chauvel, John Curtin, Light Horse Brigade, Loredana Crupi, Opus Loredana, Sir Harry Chauvel, Sir Henry George Chauvel
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Remembrance Day – Lest We Forget
Day 188 of Colourisation Project – November 11 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Today marks the 96th anniversary of the Armistice which ended the First World War. Known as … Continue reading
Mata Hari – Sex, Power and War
Day 161 of Colourisation Project – October 15 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Ninety-seven years ago, this day, 15 October 1917, Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan, was … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, France, History, Photography, Women, World War 1
Tagged France, Greta Garbo, Loredana Crupi, Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, Mata Hari, Opus Loredana, world war 1
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The Martyrdom of Nurse Edith Cavell
Day 158 of Colourisation Project – October 12 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. On this day, October 12, 1915, 49-year-old British nurse, Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing … Continue reading