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John Charles Goodchildand the role of stretcher bearers WW1 stretcher bearer, signwriter, artist & teacher
Left: Charcoal drawing of John Goodchild by his wife Doreen 1926. Right: Photograph of the Goodchild men in France . Father Jack sitting, brother William (left), and John Goodchild (right).
John Goodchild's drawings from the front: Left: Shell craters, the trenches Right: Regimental Aid Post at the front. Below:: John Goodchild's rank & time at the Villers Bretoneux front.
Right: Bears Cage Kemel Belgium
Right: Cathedral, Amiens
After the war John Goodchild was asked to draw sites of the numerous war cemeteries in Europe and elsewhere. His drawings were published in 1920 by the Government Printers in Melbourne and titled “Where Australians Rest” The two examples following are in France . Others were drawn at Gallipoli, Lemnos and England .
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Goodchild’s watercolour of the gateway of the Quirinal Palace in Paris . Now in the Art Gallery of South Australia
Addendum: The role of stretcher bearers
A page from the Training Manual detailing stretcher bearer training
Avery’s “rapid transit horse drawn ambulance wagon”.
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