Short films feature local war memorials
After interviewing Heather and Will Lee of Austinmer Thirroul RSL Sub Branch last month, local filmmaker Iris Huizinga was inspired to make two more short films based on footage of local war memorials. Her Helensburgh film features a reading of...
After interviewing Heather and Will Lee of Austinmer Thirroul RSL Sub Branch ahead of Anzac Day, local filmmaker Iris Huizinga was inspired to make two more short films based on footage of local war memorials.
The Helensburgh War Memorial film features a reading of a letter to Mrs Craig, dated 25 September 1915, from CG Page, a minister at the Presbyterian Church in Helensburgh before enlisting. His Gallipoli correspondence is recorded in the 'Letters Home' section of Our Boys Not Forgotten, an outstanding publication by Helensburgh and District Historical Society.
A World War One history by Jenny Donohoe and Mary Steenson, Our Boys Not Forgotten draws on service records, letters home, official correspondence, newspaper reports and old photographs to tell the stories of more than 400 local men who went to war, a quarter of whom never came home. It commemorates a time, a town and the pioneer families of Helensburgh and district who sacrificed so much.
The imagery in the Thirroul War Memorial film is accompanied by a poignant reading of Wilfred Owen's famous World War One poem, Dulce et Decorum Est, a blistering account of the horrors and waste of war.
