Photos of the horrendous conditions soldiers from Dubbo faced on the Flanders battlefields have moved a local researcher who helped record their stories.
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Lesley Abrahams said she had “goosebumps” on seeing the sepia images from a 1917 campaign that claimed the lives of more than 30 men with connections to Dubbo.
The soldiers were honoured on Saturday at the opening of visiting international exhibition The Belgians have not forgotten.
Mrs Abrahams, a Dubbo and District Family History Society committee member, presented brief stories of the 31 fallen to Belgian Ambassador Jean-Luc Bodson.
He had told of his country’s gratitude to the Australian and New Zealand forces as he opened the exhibition, created by the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 in Belgium.
Mrs Abrahams urged people to see it before it closed at the Western Plains Cultural Centre on February 8.
“I just feel how amazingly brave they were...I get goosebumps when I see the pictures of the conditions they were fighting in,” she said.
Faye Wheeler
I have been a journalist for more than a decade and in that time I have been keeping Daily Liberal readers up to date about issues affecting them and what's happening in their community. Throughout my career I have covered a range of rounds and most recently I have been focusing on the business round.
I have been a journalist for more than a decade and in that time I have been keeping Daily Liberal readers up to date about issues affecting them and what's happening in their community. Throughout my career I have covered a range of rounds and most recently I have been focusing on the business round.
