Curio

State Library of New South Wales
The Sappers’ boudoir, somewhere at sea, the sapper at rest, on board our transport, Vasco 1917

The Sappers’ boudoir, somewhere at sea, the sapper at rest, on board our transport, 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.