Curio

State Library of New South Wales
Onboard our transport: North Coast Eric of the 53rd No. 3145 - Steve looking for submarines - Jerry - Crock of the 53rd - Ashfield Dug of the 18th No. 6382, 1917, Vasco 1917

Onboard our transport: North Coast Eric of the 53rd No. 3145 - Steve looking for submarines - Jerry - Crock of the 53rd - Ashfield Dug of the 18th No. 6382, 1917, Vasco 1917

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

Charcoal and watercolour drawings

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.

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