Canterbury shop looking for wartime photos to display in Anzac Day tribute

DO you have any wartime photos of friends or relatives who served in the Australian armed forces? A shop on Maling Rd would love you to share them.

Shop Local: Anzac Day memorial being set up at Maling Rd shop, B Inspired shop owner Margaret Browning with her window display, with the picture of her father Hugh Browning of Hawthorn, Picture Yuri Kouzmin

A CANTERBURY business to “B Inspired” by the Anzac legend and place copies of wartime photos in a display for the 100-year commemoration this week.

Margaret Browning, from B Inspired in Maling Rd, said the business was asking residents to contribute to a display of relatives and friends who served in the Australian armed forces from Booroondara.

“We have printed an extract of the list of Boroondara residents who departed for World War I as part of the first convoy from Victoria in 1914,” Ms Browning said.

“The list is on the wall in the shop window and is already proving a talking point with passing pedestrians.

“So many addresses across Boroondara were the family homes of World War I servicemen.”

Ms Browning, herself a daughter of a World War II veteran had her father, uncle and godfather all serve in World War II.

“I think this Anzac Day provides us with an opportunity to share stories, to pause and reflect on the sacrifices of both past and present day service personnel, and to ponder how different life would have been for the families who established the area in the first half of the last century.

“We are selling Anzac Appeal badges at the counter on behalf of the RSL.”

B Inspired is located at 80 Maling Rd, Canterbury.