Essay for Contemporary Gallipoli 2015 Exhibition 2015 Abstract This essay explores The Book of Healing, an artwork by Meredith Brice created for the Contemporary Gallipoli 2015 exhibition. Through the overlaying of red poppies onto a vintage surgical instrument catalogue, the work connects public remembrance of war with personal and family memory. The article explores how objects, symbols, and documentary heritage contribute to collective memory of World War I, particularly w

Saumarez Homestead / National Trust of Australia (NSW) World War I historical article (c. early 20th-century material; later interpretation) Abstract This article examines the “badge-bag” phenomenon in Armidale, New South Wales, during World War I, where collecting fundraising badges became both a patriotic activity and a form of social competition. Women and girls attached badges and buttons, purchased to support wartime charities and organisations, to cloth handbags, transf