When I went on line to identify this old car, what came up surprised and saddened me.
That's Private Errol Noack of the Australian Army, and the photo was made on his last
trip to the beach before being deployed to Vietnam in 1966. Age 21, he was killed in
action just ten days into his service, and he was the first Australian conscript to die there.
I no longer care about the car, and only feel sadness for such a waste. Rest in Peace, Errol.
That really is sad. The car seems irrelevant, doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteBut the car is also relevant, perhaps, because it was a background to him, to whom it was also likely relevant.
ReplyDeleteI have to agree when you put it that way. It was an older model, even at the time the photo was made, and as such, It might have been his.
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ReplyDeletehttps://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Noack-262
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32839419/errol-wayne-noack
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/249828802/errol-wayne-noack
Thanks, Jim!
DeleteThe black suit, looks TOO black. (Drawn on, as is was a nude at time taken?)
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's drawn on. The Australian War Memorial website had not shied away from frontal nudity in my experience.
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