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Explore some of the stories within the Library's World War I collections this Remembrance Day.

    Drawing by Louis Vasco

      Vasco Loureiro (Louis Vasco)

      Louis Vasco enlisted as a Sapper, or engineer, but his calling was art. At 33, he married and then six months later boarded a troopship bound for the Western Front.

        Young boy saluting

          Quick march!

          Frank and Ruth Burrowes’ loving letters to ‘dear old Dad’ paint a heartfelt scene of the First World War’s impact on children.

            McCathie's war map

              Mapping the War

              The Library holds hundreds of maps documenting the progress of the war. Many of the maps were donated along with the diaries and collections of servicemen.

                A group of internees at the Holsworthy internment camp during the First World War

                  Diaries of 'enemy aliens'

                  The Library’s collection contains around 40 handwritten diaries written by ‘enemy aliens’ interned in Australia during WW1.