#OnThisDay 20 January 1917 the last house completed in the Frenchs Forest soldier settlement scheme was handed over to First World War veteran, Alfred Pearce, and his family in a special ceremony.
Source: Pittwater Online News (2018). Roads to Pittwater: The Wakehurst Parkway along Old Oxford Falls track
A series of photographs produced by the NSW Government Printing Office during and immediately after the First World War. As government photographers were on the ground shooting the image, they were not only documenting but promoting and shaping how NSW mobilised in support of Australia’s war effort.
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