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23.01.2022 On #VietnamVeteransDay we remember the service of all Australians who served in Vietnam. Bruce Fletcher (b.1937) was the first of two Australian #officialwarart...ists appointed to go to the Vietnam War and the first official war artist to be shot. Within two days of arriving in Vietnam, Fletcher was wounded in the foot when a captured enemy rifle accidently discharged aboard the Caribou he was travelling on between Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) and Vung Tau. Despite his injuries and trauma of the accident Fletcher produced more than 200 works for the @awmemorial. Many of which are drawings in fibre-tipped pen sometimes smudged to create tone. As dye based inks are inherently acidic and prone to fading Fletcher’s drawings are currently being digitised to ensure their preservation. Fletcher worked from life and memory. His drawings are a unique documentation of his experience as an artist on deployment from his time in hospital, to his attachment to 7RAR and excursions with public relations officers. To see more of Bruce Fletcher’s art in the collection: https://www.awm.gov.au/advanced-search #VietnamVeteransDay #fibrepen #digitisation #collections #Museumathome #MyAWM #AWMemorial #artist #VietnamWar #conservation #collectiondigitisation #drawings #lestweforget #Vungtau #NuiDat #AustralianArmy #hueyhelicopter #Brucefletcher #vietnamveterans
14.01.2022 We've passed the 5000 unique downloads of the podcast. A great milestone to achieve. This means you are enjoying the podcast. We're slowly putting a plan together for the next series. Stay tuned.
10.01.2022 It's been a while but we're still here plugging away. We're in the process of producing the next couple of episodes. These episodes will be covering Vietnam. Watch this space. Adam -AWH
01.01.2022 A team of stretcher bearers struggle through deep mud to carry a wounded man to safety near Boesinghe, on the 1st of August 1917, in the Battle of Pilckem Ridge..., which was the opening attack of the Third Battle of Ypres (also known as the Battle of Passchendaele). Mud, death and despair, is used to describe this time in WW1. Lest We Forget. Photograph came from the Imperial War Museums. Image file number IWM Q 5935.
