Though it certainly does snow in Australia, and the country even has ski hills, the majority of Australians don't grow up with snow. Particularly in the days before long-distance travel was commonplace, a lot of Australians never even saw snow. So when Australian soldiers were posted abroad to places like Northern Europe, Canada, and Korea, they tended to have an awful lot of fun with it.
Snowball-armed soldiers and their prizewinning kangaroo snowman at a Convalescent Camp in England, 1917. Source
Australian soldiers having a snowball fight at a camp in southern England, 1916. Source
Nurses and convalescent Australian soldiers have a snowball fight at a hospital in southern England, WWI. Source
Australian soldiers make a snowman in Seoul, Korea, 1950. Source
Soldiers play leapfrog in the snow (and what looks like snowball catch), Belgium, 1919. Source
Men of the Royal Australian Air Force in a snowball fight on an English air base, 1942. Source
Soldiers sledding down a snowy road, Belgium, 1919. Source
A snowball fight including an Australian Major-General, Belgium, 1919. Source
RAAF men with their snowman in Canada, ca. 1942. Source
RAAF men posing with snowballs in Cyprus, 1953. Source
Soliders in a snowball fight in Belgium, 1919. Source
Soldiers throw snowballs at a pal in a tree, Belgium, 1919. Source
Convalescent soldiers pull a nurse on a sled at a hospital in southern England (with another fellow behind waiting with snowballs). Source
Soldiers with their snowman in Korea, 1956. Source
Convalescent soldiers and their snowman of Kaiser Wilhem II, at a camp in England, 1917. Source
Australian cavalry having a snowball fight among the cedars in Lebanon, 1919. Source
RAAF men, their snowman, and the classic "dump snow on someone's neck right before the shutter," Korea, 1951. Source
Another kangaroo snowman, WWI. Source
No comments:
Post a Comment