Damien Murphy is a senior writer for The Sydney Morning Herald. A founding force of Australian documentary filming, Hurley continued to work in exotic places and hostile environments, working up to his death in 1962. Griffiths charts Hurley's ill-fated voyages to the Antarctic with Sir Douglas Mawson (1911-14) and being shipwrecked with Sir Ernest Shackleton (1914-17). Douglas Mawson's team members during the first Australian Antarctic Expedition seen in the kitchen c1912. Victoria's agreement to send more soldiers was perhaps surprising. Battle scarred sentinel stations pictured by Frank Hurley in 1917. The ruins of the medieval Cloth Hall in Ypres in September 1917.Credit:Frank Hurley/Australian War Memorial. 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The Australians were relieved by the Canadians on October 18 and by that time the five Australian divisions had suffered 38,000 casualties, including 12,000 dead and missing. Yet many Melbourne Catholics voted for conscription even though one of their leading priests said Australians were already doing enough to help the British cause on the Western Front. Well piss off. Five months later the Germans took it all back in three days. Environmental Impact Assessment approvals, Australia and the Antarctic Treaty System, Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, What happens before departure & on arrival at station, Message for family and friends of expeditioners, Classification of scientific publications, Antarctic Strategy and Action Plan: Prime Minister’s Foreword. In 1911, Hurley began his Antarctic career by persuading Douglas Mawson to employ him as official photographer on the 1911–14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE). My wretched companions are greedy for their miserable lives. Photos of famed adventurers Douglas Mawson and Ernest Shackleton along with images of the Western Front and Tobruk ensure they'll be remembered forever - Hurley's exploits though go largely unheralded. The race was awarded by the judge to Hurley owing to Wild failing to "weigh in" correctly. Robert Bage (1888-1915) was an Australian soldier and explorer and is pictured at the entrance to Astronomic Observatory part of the buildings known as "Mawson's Huts". our story will be unknown to the world. Coffee was a retired Air Force veteran and a member of the Shreveport VFW and the Shreveport Elks Club. He would chronicle both world wars with his camera. It became trapped in January 1915 when temperatures dropped dramatically, compacting the ice. NSW, Queensland and South Australia voted "No". But in 1936, two large stone guardian lions were donated to the Australian War Memorial by the burgomaster (mayor) of the Belgian city of Ypres. Frank Hurley is an icon of Australian documentary photography and Antarctic exploration. During the first few years of the century, Frank Hurley seemed to have had several jobs and continued his education. The October 28 vote resulted 1,087,557 for and 1,160,033 against. The limestone lions were toppled by shellfire during the war as the town was reduced to rubble. Griffiths said there was no fairy-tale end to Hurley's personal life. In another month there will not be even a trace of our existence. Hard at work: John Vincent, the Bosun of the 'Endurance' mending a net, 1915. 'In PNG the administrator Sir Hubert Murray refused him re-entry. One … Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. ', 'Our stores are virtually gone. This time Victoria also voted "No". Frank Hurley: A photographer's life By Alasdair McGregor Viking, $65. Hurley's life encompassed countless flying milestones - here he captures a flight of bombing planes of the 1st Australian Flying Corps over Palestine, 1914-1918. Sixty-one Victoria Crosses were awarded, nine to Australians. 'There was the post traumatic stress horror from the Western Front too but my own view is he may have had some form of Asperger's. He visited the Antarctic six times between 1911 and 1932. But, according to a new book, he was never liked by those he made famous. The remaining 400 were smashed on the ice. Ice mask on C.T. War photographer Frank Hurley portrayed death everywhere at Passchendaele. Working hard in the Antarctic - Frank Hurley's c1912 picture of huskies pulling a sled along. Nothing could move in the mud. These past few years, the Menin Gate lions have been in Ypres as part of the World War I commemorations but will return to Canberra after Remembrance Day 2017. They capture horror and nonchalant heroism: "Next day I was awoken by a voice, 'You the Lancashire Fusiliers? Mount Hurley in Antarctica is named in his honour. Marooned with the Shackleton expedition on a wilderness of ice, his ship sunk, what did Frank Hurley do? After the referendum loss, Hughes was tossed out of the Australian Labor Party. "Throughout the 1920s and 1930s whether in Australia or New Zealand, only one word was used to describe inconsolable grief and mourning and a suffering and a pain that would never go: and that word was Passchendaele," Nelson said. With the ship about to sink, Hurley dived into the freezing water to retrieve his submerged films and plates. He documented the voyage, air surveys and proclamation of Australian Antarctic Territory in the film, The Siege of the South. Later, with the team facing a long trek across the sea ice, he bargained with Shackleton to let him keep 120 glass plates. Tim Griffiths contends that Hurley suffered post traumatic stress as a result of what the horrors he witnessed on the Western Front. Frank Hurley survived the bloody battlefields of both world wars and Antarctic shipwrecks to become a history-making photographer. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Mud, death and despair at the Battle of Passchendaele. More on ANZAC forces in the Great War in the articles Trouble with undisciplines Aussies and Shooting Match: who really died in Gallipoli. The lions were given to Australia as a gesture of friendship, and reconstructed, they have been at the entrance of the Australian War Memorial since 1987. For the World War I generations, time never healed Passchendaele. 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Some of Hurley's photographs were subsequently hand-coloured for war exhibitions, c1917. The ruins of the medieval Cloth Hall in Ypres in September 1917. Griffiths, a lawyer, was living in Papau New Guinea when he first came across Frank Hurley's photographs. All the adventure came at a personal cost. Nearly 15,700 Canadians and 5300 New Zealanders fell there, killed, wounded or missing. Services were held Monday at 2 p.m. in the Rose-Neath Chapel in Minden with Dr. Ronald Prince officiating. He railed against officialdom when told his brief was to print censored images that would help convince people back home to vote 'Yes' to conscription. During the election campaign Mannix had denounced the inequality of sacrifice, endorsing the justice of strikes and declaring that a vote for Hughes would be a vote for conscription. The Australian War Memorial's recollections include those of one exhausted British soldier who slithered into a pill box for safety at Passchendaele and fell asleep against a dead German. Ice-cased Adelie penguins pictured after a blizzard swept through Cape Denison. Endurance is the first book by Tim Griffiths described as 'a moving portrait of the man behind the legend' which is Frank Hurley. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. Hurley senior died suddenly in 1907. This is the scene on Elephant Island after the release of the shipwrecked crew by Chilean tug Yelcho in 1916 after more than a year marooned on the South Pole. Frank Hurley is an icon of Australian documentary photography and Antarctic exploration. The lion at the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium in September.Credit:AAP. 'Even all that was not enough, he then went onto document World War Two,' said Griffiths. His troops arrived at that conclusion long before the historians: they called him "Butcher Haig".