The Port Macquarie Historical Society has a new temporary exhibition on show ‘Missing You’ — Love, loss and war.
The exhibition highlights the personal impact of war on those who served and those who stayed at home and features local stories, letters, photographs, wartime souvenirs and other objects from the Port Macquarie Historical Society’s collection.
The exhibition includes the photograph young Fred Cuttriss gave to his mother before he left for Gallipoli in 1915, never to return, an ANZAC Commemorative Medallion issued to the family of Leslie Raymond Poutney who was wounded at Gallipoli in 1915 and died later of his wounds, the Next of Kin plaque issued to William Reid whose son John Oliver Ambrose Reid died in France in 1918 and embroidered silk cushion covers made in France and sent home to family and loved ones, to name a few.
The exhibition is being held in association with Of Love and War, an Australian War Memorial Travelling Exhibition currently showing at the Glasshouse.
Missing You is on display at the Port Macquarie Historical Museum until August 31.
