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PHOTOGRAPHS OF WWI WAR GRAVES

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12 photographs of military gravestones from World War 1. On the back of 3 of these photographs is written [1/2 dozen of this one]. On the back of photograph of Private S Dadley is written [Mrs. R.J. Dadley/94 Long Acre/Nechells/Birmingham]. There is 1 photograph of Lucy Denholm (Knox)'s mother standing behind a gravestone. On the back of this photograph is written [Lucy Denholm's mother].

Historical information

This set of negatives and photographs are of mainly British war graves and were taken in the 1920s, possibly by Leonard Knox for clients who were on one of his tours of the WWI war graves at Ypres Belgium.
Lucy Knox was born in 1927 to Leonard and Berthe (nee Brel, Berthe was born in France) and grew up in the Belgium city of Ypres where her parents ran a hotel and conducted tours of Word War One battle sites and cemeteries, mainly for British tourists. The family moved to England sometime in the mid to late 1940s. In the late 1950s Lucy went on a world trip stopping in Kenya and Perth where where she me Englishman Peter James Denholm, who she married in 1960. The pair settled in Western Australia and started a family. In the 1960s the family spent time farming in the Busselton, Greenhills and Dandaragin areas before settling in the Byford area.

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cwa-org-33-COA2015.56B

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Photographs

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People
War and Conflict

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Statement of significance

This collection of postcards from Lucy Denholm (nee Knox) is representative of the destruction that occurred in Western Europe during World War One. The collection focuses on the Belgium City of Ypres where a number of local residents who were members of the Australian Imperial Force, fought against the German Army.

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