Alexander Galloway's Lost Diggers of Weston in Abermain, New South Wales, Australia | Museum

Alexander Galloway's Lost Diggers of Weston

Locality: Abermain, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 409 452 555

Address: Edgeworth David Memorial Museum, Abermain School of Arts, Cessnock Road 2326 Abermain, NSW, Australia

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17.01.2022 What's going on? Our volunteers from Coalfields Local History Association and Towns With Heart, with the support of many craftspeople around the community, are preparing for our next COVID-safe project. Come and see the results on ANZAC Day. Watch this space for more details.

11.01.2022 LOST DIGGERS ON DISPLAY IN KURRI CBD Do you have a World War I digger in your ancestry? He may be one of the Lost Diggers of Weston photographed by Alexander Galloway. The Sir Edgeworth David Memorial Museum and Towns With Heart Inc. are coordinating a COVID-safe exhibition of selected images from the Lost Diggers collection in conjunction with Remembrance Day. From Monday next and for the following week, a significant number of business houses in the Kurri CBD will host a d...isplay of these images, said Bill Holland, one of the volunteers coordinating the display. Most of the images will be of unidentified individuals, in the hope that someone may recognise a grandfather or great-grandfather. As the exhibition coincides with NAIDOC Week, one of the images to be displayed at Kurri Kurri Library will be that of William Jonas, who was a noted Aboriginal rough rider who performed in England prior to enlistment. The exhibition also has the cooperation of the Kurri Kurri RSL sub-branch. Several images will be placed on display in the band rotunda in Rotary Park in conjunction with the ceremony of commemoration on Wednesday morning. Any businesses who may wish to participate in the exhibition may do so by contacting the Kurri Kurri Visitors Centre on 4936 1909 between 9am and 3pm. See more

09.01.2022 William Jonas' story is one of the most fascinating of the biographies researched by our volunteers. Find our more at his timeline https://livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/102384

08.01.2022 The Sydney Morning Herald has a feature on Kurri Kurri's Maud Butler https://www.smh.com.au//stowaway-maud-butler-made-it-her-m

07.01.2022 For 90 years, glass plate negatives of a group of young Australian soldiers sat untouched beneath a house in the NSW Hunter Valley last year historians painstakingly uncovered the incredible stories of the men behind these images. #AnzacDay2020

07.01.2022 Thank you to Complete Planning Solutions and numerous other businesses who are displaying our photographs during this week. We will also be mounting a display in the Rotary Park band rotunda on Wednesday morning in association with the RSL Remembrance Day ceremony.

04.01.2022 In the days before they went off to WWI, a group of young soldiers posed to have their pictures taken by Scottish migrant Alexander Galloway. For 90 years, his ...glass plate negatives sat untouched beneath a house at Weston, in the NSW Hunter Valley now historians have painstakingly uncovered the incredible stories of the men behind these images. In the lead up to Anzac Day, we're resurfacing stories from the archives, like this one from 2019. #AnzacDay2020