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Ann MacPherson and Eric McLean on their wedding day, 1918
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April - October 1918..Studio portrait of ex-Prisoner of War (POW) 3060 Private (Pte) Eric Ernest McLean, 16th Battalion, from Digby, Victoria and his wife Ann, nee MacPherson. ..Pte McLean enlisted on 23 July 1915 at the age of 18 and embarked for overseas on 14 September 1915 aboard HMAT Ballarat. After serving at Gallipoli, he also served on the Western Front where he was wounded and captured at Bullecourt, France, on 11 April 1917. He received a gun shot wound to the right leg which was amputated above the knee whilst in German POW Camp Reserve Lazarett [hospital] at Hannover, Germany. Pte McLean was transferred to Holland on 13 January 1918, arrived in London on 20 January 1918 and was admitted to King Georges Hospital. On 25 April 1918 he was married and arrived back in Australia on 17 November 1918. One of a series of over 400 photographs sent by Australian POWs in German camps to Miss M. E. Chomley, Secretary, Prisoners Department, Australian-British Red Cross Society, London. Original album housed in AWM Research Centre at RC00864, Album image number 184...Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions...This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection ( http:// ) ..: cas.awm.gov.au/photograph/P03236.157 ( http://cas.awm.gov.au/photograph/P03236.157 )
The Australian War Memorial combines a shrine, a museum, and an extensive archive. Its collections, commemorative ceremonies, exhibitions and research help Australians remember, interpret, and understand the Australian experience of war and its enduring impact on Australian society. It was in August 1916 that Charles Bean, then the Australian official war correspondent, and later the official historian, developed the idea for a memorial museum. The organisation of the collection began in May 1917 under John Treloar, a young army officer who was later appointed Director of the Memorial. He laid the foundation for all of the Memorial’s collections, which include objects, works of art, photographs, film, sound recordings, official and personal records, books, maps, and ephemera. The collection includes material from 1789 to the present.
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