New project to remember Noosa at war

Noosa Library Service is launching a new project Noosa’s War Front as part of the state, national and worldwide World War I centenary commemorations.  

The Noosa’s War Front project, funded through a $14,481 grant from the Queensland Anzac Centenary Grants Program, will explore how Council and the Noosa community navigated the World War I years.

“The war years are a significant chapter in our history and by uncovering and recording the events and experiences of this era, valuable stories of the district’s past will be able to be shared and preserved,” Noosa Library Service Heritage Librarian Jane Harding said.

The project will explore themes of patriotism, courage, resilience, grief, loss, duty and sacrifice as experienced by the Noosa community.

The community can get involved in the project as volunteer researchers or by sharing their family’s own WWI stories, photos, letters, diaries, and memorabilia with the library at a series of “Antiques Roadshow-style” collecting drives in April 2015.

Ms Harding said the material contributed at the collecting drives would be digitised and become a permanent part of the Library’s heritage collection.

The collection will be accessible to the community, students and researchers worldwide via the Library website and social media platforms.

The Noosa’s War Front project will culminate in a travelling exhibition to be launched on Remembrance Day 2015.

The project is proudly supported by the Queensland Government. 

For more information on the program, contact Noosa Library Service on (07) 5329 6534.

18 December 2014