Trove Tuesday

Trove has its own blog, and their latest post featured Laura J Carroll.  Laurais an author and artist who has used Trove to create a graphic novel about the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne. Her book 'Making the Shrine: stories from Victoria's war memorial' comprises of 25 individual stories set in time periods from 1918 to 2021. The stories are accompanied by hand-drawn illustrations by Laura. 

‘It explores what the Shrine has meant in the changing context of how Australians have thought about how we should collectively remember wars. From the catastrophic loss and grief of the years immediately after the First World War through to the present day,’ Laura says.

The Shrine of Remembrance opened on 11 November 1934 to honour the men and women of Victoria who served in World War I. This year we celebrate its 90th anniversary, with the Shrine now serving as a memorial to all Australians who have served in any war.

I have visited the Shrine several times, and have used Trove to research both World Wars and the parts my family played in them.  I have found information about relatives who volunteered, details about going away parties before soldiers embarked, reports of soldiers killed or missing in action.  Some newspapers even published excerpts from letters soldiers sent home from the front.

The newspaper article here is from the Essendon Gazette and Keilor, Bulla and Broadmeadows Reporter, published 6 June 1918, page 3.  It gives news of local men serving - news, awards, wounds and deaths.  The same article was published in the Flemington Spectator.

The final listing in this article regards a relative, Edward John Pummeroy, who had been reported as missing in action some 8 months previously.  Following a military court of inquiry in the field, Edward was finally reported as killed in action, after a direct hit from a shell.

Also found in Trove was the family notice of Edward's death, also published in several newspapers.