*3-D Battlefield Photos

Families and Friends of the First AIF Member Peter Morrissey of Coonabarabran, winner of the New South Wales 2008 Premier’s Westfield History Scholarship, has recently returned from his trip to Gallipoli and the Western Front.

Photo: Peter Morrissey and daughter Imogen travelled together to the Western Front & Gallipoli [Peter Morrissey]

As outlined in DIGGER 25, (page 29) Peter, an Information Technology teacher, is aiming to produce a ‘set of panoramic 3 dimensional virtual reality (3-D VR) immersive photographs of places and battlefields of particular significance to Australia’ that enable students to view the WW1 battlefields of Turkey and France in any direction. The first of the collection has been uploaded to Peter’s website (Click here to go to Anzac Battlefields of World War One) enabling a 360 degree panorama of Scott’s Post at Polygon Wood.

Peter will continue adding more virtual tours to his site. So bookmark this as a “favourite” and check back at the site regularly to see where you can visit next.

Photo: Peter and Imogen also visited Menin Gate to take part in the Last Post ceremony. 
Peter, with FFFAIF Belgium Members, Anny De Decker and Johan Durnez laid a wreath on behalf of FFFAIF on 4 May while FFFAIF Secretary Chris Munro recited ‘The Ode‘. [Chris Munro]

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The Families and Friends of the First AIF thanks the Australian, UK and French governments for affording Australian and British soldiers – presently buried in mass graves at Pheasant Wood – dignified individual reburials in a new CWGC cemetery at Fromelles, and applauds Minister Snowdon and his British counterpart, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence and Minister for Veterans, Kevan Jones MP, for their joint decision to DNA test the remains at exhumation and use every reasonable method to attempt identification of each soldier.