Field of Remembrance Project

Field of Remembrance Project is a collaborative project between Newcastle Museum and The Newcastle and Hunter Combined Schools ANZAC Commemorative Event. It aims to rediscover the lives and stories of the service men and women who lived in Newcastle and the Hunter Region, and commemorate their service in War.

Schools are invited to research a service person with a connection in the Hunter Region and contribute to the ongoing Field of Remembrance display that is exhibited at the Newcastle Museum every ANZAC Day.

The Field of Remembrance display is made up of the Newcastle Sub Branch RSL and community white crosses that each acknowledges the name of a service person with a connection to the Hunter Region. Schools will need to provide 100-200 words of text, an image of the service person and an image of their school/class. The information provided by schools will become part of the Newcastle Museum's annual ANZAC Day display and be utilised on the Museum website about service men and women of the Hunter.

This project is a great way to engage your students in a meaningful community research project where they develop and apply their historical enquiry and communication skills and engage with historical content. Your student's research helps continue to build on this community project by finding service personnel and adding their stories to the Field of Remembrance. Your students will be able to see their service person's name on a cross displayed on the 25th April every year on the Museum lawn as well as access their research information on the Museum website. Their research will be seen and utilised by other members of the Hunter community.

For further information on this project or to be included in the Field of Remembrance for please submit your research via email to Bree Rooney, Audience Engagement Officer (programming).

If you would like to book a school visit to the Museum, please call the Audience Engagement Officer (education) on 4974 1422.

Download Field of Remembrance Project_2018_FAQs.pdf [299Kb]

Download Example of extended response.pdf [287Kb]

Complete our online form below. Please note asterisk * denotes mandatory fields.

Details of School
Name of School*:
Class/Year*:
Contact name of teacher*:
Phone*:
Email*:
Service person details
Name of Service person*:	(e.g. John Smith)
Service number*:	(e.g. SX0902)
Unit:	(e.g. 22 Independent Brigade Group Ordnance Workshop AAOC)
Rank:	(e.g. Corporal)
Service:	(e.g. The Australian Army)
Conflict / Operation:	(e.g. Second World War, 1939 -1947)
Date of birth:	Format DD/MM/YYYY
Date of death:	Format DD/MM/YYYY
Place of death:
Story of service person
Story*:	*Text (100-200 words about the story of the service person you are researching). Please include how they are connected to Newcastle and Hunter Region, e.g. they may be born here or they may have moved/migrated here.
Images
Service person image:	Please ensure your images are no larger than 2mb in size
Service person image caption*:
School / School Group*:	Please ensure your images are no larger than 2mb in size
School / School Group image caption*:
Copyright*:	Yes No Is your image copyright cleared/expired? All images need copyright clearance to be on the website.
Image acknowledgement:	If you have taken the image from another institution/website etc. they require set text that acknowledges the source of the image. This can be different for each institution so please enquire directly with them.
References
List of references*:	Where did you get your information from, e.g. name of website, books, name of person/organisation.