SOME drew on op shops, some made their own, some selected carefully from contemporary fashion and others delved deep into their wardrobes to make a fashion impression at Sunday’s Armistice Day re-enactment.
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In November 1918, a crowd numbering in the thousands gathered outside Orange’s town hall – then located in Anson Street – to celebrate the end of hostilities on Europe’s battlefields.
The moment was captured for posterity in a photograph which was included in an album presented to Presbyterian minister Reverend J C McDonald when he left Orange for Blackheath in February, 1919.
My grandfather was killed in World War I and I know the impact it had on my family.
- Vicki Hartley
A reproduction of that photo is on display at Orange City Library, and on Sunday, an attempt was made to take a modern-day version.
For the Kingsley-Millers, World War I is part of their history: Phillip Kingsley-Miller said his uncle, Charles Miller-Anzar died at Pozieres.
After completing national service in 1956, Mr Kingsley-Miller stayed in the Citizen Military Forces for five years and son Tim later spent six years in the reserves.
VIDEO: The crowd gathered on Sunday …
Vicki Hartley of Lithgow Living History attended in a replica 1915 Australian Army Nursing Service uniform.
“My grandfather was killed in World War I and I know the impact it had on my family,” she said.
The Orange District Antique Motor Club brought a number of its post-1900 vehicles for the photo.
“During the First World War, petrol was scarce,” he said.
The photo re-enactment was the final event for council’s World War I Centenary Committee Commemoration Program.
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