A replica of the Kelly Gang armour in the Ned Kelly Museum, Glenrowan. This replica was made using the same method as the original armour, on a bush forge from mouldboards from plows.
Simpson and his donkey were one of the icons of the Gallipoli campaign. Pvt. John Simpson Kirkpatrick was a stretcher-bearer in the 3rd Australian Field Ambulance. Simpson was the first person to evacuate wounded soldiers from the front line to the first aid station at ANZAC Cove.
The Commemorative Area inside the Australian War Memorial, looking towards the Hall of Valour.
“Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.”
The flip side view from yesterday’s view of the Parliament Houses. Looking up ANZAC Parade towards the Australian War Memorial, with Mt Ainslie looming over it.
Signage on the NSW Mail Van in the NSW Rail Museum at Thirlmere.
The figurehead from HMVS Nelson, previously the HMS Nelson built in 1814, and named in honour of Admiral Horatio Nelson.
One of the anchors from HMS Sirius. HMS Sirius was the flagship of the First Fleet, the ships that brought the first European settlers to Australia. She was wrecked on Norfolk Island while landing supplies in 1790.
Musée d’Orsay, previously the Gare d’Orsay, a railway station that has been converted into an art museum.
A relic of the early days of the Great Western Railway, and Swindon. This silver model of a GWR Firefly Class locomotive served as a coffee pot in the Swindon Railway Station refreshment rooms in the 1840s when this class where to be seen between London and Bristol. Small burners were placed under the locomotive to keep the coffee warm. I’m not too sure how well it worked as the engineer of the GWR, IK Brunel, wrote to the concessionaire “I am surprised that you bought such bad roasted corn. I did not believe that you had such a thing as coffee in the place.“
