Last year I worked with an Australian TV company Channel 7 to finally uncover a large collection of negatives featuring Australian soldiers who spent time in and around a Somme village. Some of them have appeared in print before but most have not. The collection will now feature in an upcoming documentary. TV website: Sunday Night Channel 7 Official Site - Yahoo!7 TV Facebook page: http://www.facebook....194652777219968
Paul Sounds like some great detective work! will we be getting to see this program in the near future?
Sadly doesn't look like it will be shown in the UK. :-( THIS IS NOT FAIR it b annoys me I stuck in the UK and my "digger" stuff is in Australia this not fair, there is virtually nothing on our telly about Australian stuff, and yet in WW1, I can't remember the ratio, but there were loads of Brits serving in the Australian Army. Plus there was a pic of Grandad in Uniform in Australia but my Dad being my Dad threw the lot in the bin with the retort of "I wanted a Father not b medals and a photograph" I have serached and serched the Australian Archieves for pics of my Grandad, but nothing yet there is one somewhere it really naffs me off big time. I have pay a fortune in money to get books and stuff about Grandad its not B fair. The only reason I can think is that Churchill was a WW2 big wig but really messed it up time in WW1 so how can you have a leader of a country that won WW2 being absolutely hated in WW1, have been told by realiable source, that the vetrans of Gallipoli would hound Churchill where ever he went to speak! Yeap my Grandfather was in the 4th Batallion AIF, D Company landed ANZAC Cove 25th April, between 11 am and 12pm was held in reserve until 5pm and died at Lone Pine 6th - 9th August 1915. Ok toys now back in the pram. Edit have managed to look at some of the pics and No 25 I think is the number, could be my Grandfather I have asked the family to send a pic of my Great Uncle, because this guy has the same build, same tash and same stance so gotta wait for that pic to come through but if this is the Somme then its not.
You've lost me there... Churchill is the reason there are no Australian military history programmes on British TV?
No sorry I was generally having a moan about very little programms about Gallipoli, its always the Western Front, and I did I wonder if it was something to do with Churchill and WWII as I said you can't have someone who was vilified in WW1 and a leader in WWII as it was in part Churchills idea to go to the Dardenells. Have heard although not sure that when they came to plan D Day in WWII they looked at the Dardenells and not how to do it so to speak as the Dardenells was the first time a landing like that had been done ever and it was a cock up from start to finish. Nightmare I know for a fact that the Australians were landed in the wrong place.
Yes, we made a BBC Timewatch about that very thing in 2003 - 'Gallipoli, The First D Day'. It often comes up on Yesterday and some of the other doco channels in the UK.
Doc appears to view just fine here: The Lost Diggers - Yahoo!7 TV About two thirds of the way down the page, after the galleries (assuming that 13 minutes is the segment - looks to be.)
There is a follow up program on Sunday Night on Sunday 20 March 2011 at 6.30pm. Sneak peek at Sunday Night Channel 7 Official Site - Yahoo!7 TV.
Hi The show was not as good as I thought it may be, am I right in saying only 6 photos were named? Out of how many? And what is happening with the rest of them, still sounds up in the air to me? Obviously an emotional time for those who were found, but no discussion on what they did, if they survived etc. regards Robert
None of the photos were named. However, some have been identified. There are two parts of the same collection, owned by different parts of the family. One collection, now owned by AWM, numbers about 500 images and the other in the region of 3000. The fate of the second part of the collection is currently unknown.
Hi Paul Can anyone still access those 500 photos owned by the AWM? and where? There is a possibility of a family member being there, but I would ahve to do more research to confirm. regards Robert
Two points Re Aussies - There was a good prog on recently about the Kokoda Trail on one of the history type channels Re Western Front in WW1 - sorry there are not enough programmes about that either although I have noticed a couple that are Canadian made recently that seem (to me anyway) a tad biased Jim
Re Aussies - There was a good prog on recently about the Kokoda Trail on one of the history type channels Probably Beyond Kokoda produced by Foxtel
