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Private Mervyn Allen Lown, 13th Battalion, AIF, c.1914
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Private Mervyn Allen Lown, 13th Battalion, AIF

Mervyn Lown was born in 1893 to Andrew and Margaret Lown in Balmain, Sydney. His father owned a grocery on Darling Street, and was a warden at St Mary’s Church of England.

Author: Australian War Memorial

5257 Private Samson Daniel Fox, 38th Battalion, AIF, c.1915
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Private Samson Daniel Fox, 38th Battalion, AIF

Samson Fox was born on 13 August 1893 at Cadell, South Australia, to Samson Daniel Fox senior, an Indigenous man from southern Victoria, and Eliza Bourne, a white woman from Kap

Author: Australian War Memorial

Studio portrait of 896 Private Edwin Sydney Jones, 18th Battalion of Manly, NSW, c.1915
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Private Edwin Jones, 18th Battalion, AIF

Edwin Sydney Jones was born in 1883, the youngest of three surviving children to Edwin and Elizabeth Jones of the Sydney suburb of Manly, New South Wales.

Author: Australian War Memorial

Private George Henry Spinks, 52nd Battalion, AIF, c.1916
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Private George Henry Spinks, 52nd Battalion, AIF

George Spinks was born on 22 June 1891 to Charles and Rachel Spinks of Penguin, Tasmania. When George was seven, his 10 year old sister, Elvie, died of a heart condition.

Author: Australian War Memorial

'Good to Bad' painting from Garawa artist Jacky Green in Borroloola NT, 2013
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Good to Bad

"In this painting I show how things have been changing over time in the Gulf country.

Author: Australian War Memorial