Category Archives: World War 1

Violet Jessop ~ Miss Unsinkable

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

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 →

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In Flanders Fields ~ We are the Dead

Posted on May 3, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

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 →

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Albert Jacka – Super ANZAC

Posted on April 26, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

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 →

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Unable to Vote But Eligible to Die ~ Lest We Forget

Posted on April 25, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

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 →

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Rupert Brooke ~ The Soldier Poet

Posted on April 23, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

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 →

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The Red Baron Aced

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

Day 349 of Colourisation Project – April 21 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication.  It was on this day, 21 April 1918, that Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, aka the Red … Continue reading →

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Harry Chauvel – A Born Cavalry Officer

Posted on April 16, 2015 by Loredana Isabella

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 →

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Remembrance Day – Lest We Forget

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Loredana Isabella

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 →

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Mata Hari – Sex, Power and War

Posted on October 15, 2014 by Loredana Isabella

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 →

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The Martyrdom of Nurse Edith Cavell

Posted on October 12, 2014 by Loredana Isabella

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 →

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