Curio

State Library of New South Wales
Some of the ‘bhoys’ en route for ‘the old dart’— Yorkey, Balks, Red, Ray, December 1916

Some of the ‘bhoys’ en route for ‘the old dart’— Yorkey, Balks, Red, Ray, December 1916

Ragtime sketches on board our transport, Vasco, 1917, Purchased from Mrs G Vasco, November 1920, PXE 700 / Vol. 2

Charcoal and watercolour drawings

Just before Vasco enlisted, he married Gwendolyn Dunlop in Brisbane on 11 May 1916.

Vasco enlisted as a sapper, or engineer.

Vasco’s responsibilities with the field engineers on the Western Front included constructing the lines of defence, temporary bridges, tunnels and trenches, observation posts, roads, railways, and communication lines.