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Remembered Today:

3 Australian General Hospital, Lemnos - Then and Now


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Taken a few hundred metres east of 3AGH (not far from the present Russian memorial) - likely to be 3AGH nurses & officers (?) - the link takes you to the Flickr page where images can be viewed at original size

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Evacuation of our troops from the Peninsula. Barges conveyed them from transports to the Island.

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The last batch of troops from the Peninsula arriving at Lemnos. Jan. 1916

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Very evocative. I particularly liked #4 with the soldiers gazing with their backs to us. Thanks for the trouble you have gone to.

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You have put in a lot of effort on these. They are fantastic.

I love the before and after photos and could look at them all day.

Thanks.

Len

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I have to add a comment as well. They are very well done, especially post 3. Just stunning.

Cheers Andy.

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stunningly evocative . Great work.

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Very skilfully done, and quite haunting to see these figures from the past seeming to occupy the same locations today.

George

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Truly wonderful images. They are really quite stunning and a very interesting approach. Quite unique and I think it adds a new dimension spanning time. Thanks for sharing. MG

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Thanks all. I know I'm not the only one that finds 'then and now' photos fascinating. Have a look at the Historypin project, great promise with some large museums/archives partnering with them, and the possibility of crowdsourcing locations and current photographs.

Wendy, the composites are done in Photoshop. You make the top layer (historical photo) opaque, and size/rotate it into place. It helps to take a 'now' photo in the right spot though. My wife has a great eye for that - better than 20/20 vision. Has warned me never to run if she's holding a gun smile.gif. That West Mudros peninsula lends itself to these photos as the mountains in the background of the 1915/1916 photos haven't changed and are clearly visible.

I am looking for photos of No. 2 Australian Stationary Hospital when it moved to Mudros West, and of the Canadian & British hospitals there so as to locate those hospitals within the peninsula as well.

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wow, great stuff! I've been doing some research on some chaps who were at Lemnos and it has helped shape my understanding.

Thank you and well done.

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Just love having 'my girls' to the fore - and the background! Many thanks, it's great stuff. I can see great applications for this technology.

cheers

Kirsty

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Kirsty - you wouldn't happen to know which nurses are pictured with the blown down tent?

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Great work on these photos. I know it is an older post but worth mentioning all the same.

Scott

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Kirsty - you wouldn't happen to know which nurses are pictured with the blown down tent?

Hi Bern

Sorry for the very delayed reply - I don't know who the nurses are - I presume Savage doesn't say on the originals? I don't recognise them from any portraits that I've seen - we need some face recognition technology me thinks!

cheers

Kirsty

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