{"id":7329,"date":"2015-07-27T04:41:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T17:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=7329"},"modified":"2018-10-27T18:24:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T07:24:50","slug":"darcey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=7329","title":{"rendered":"D’arcey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight at 7.52 when it was 6 degrees Celsius and blowing an icy gale, I took this photo of D’arcey Richard Nottingham Shaw’s name projected onto the Australian War Memorial.\u00a0 It was hard to hold my camera still in the wind, but the photo is not too bad.\u00a0 D’arcey was killed in action on The Somme in France in 1917, yet he has no grave;\u00a0 his remains were never found.\u00a0 On his Roll of Honour card, digitally available on the A.W.M. website, it is noted that D’arcey Shaw’s wounds were the result of being buried twice from bombs bursting near him in Pozi\u00e8res.\u00a0 How ironic that they should write that, when in the end he was buried nowhere.<\/p>\n

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D R N Shaw, projected onto Australian War Memorial, 26th July 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Because he died defending Australia, his name was written in light for 30 seconds tonight, perhaps for my benefit alone.\u00a0 As far as I know, none of his other family members live in Canberra.\u00a0 Since I’m just ten minutes away, it’s easy to whip down to the Memorial and see the names when they come up between sunset and sunrise.<\/p>\n

D’arcey was my grandfather’s cousin.\u00a0 I want to remember him and his two brothers who also died in France, in the war to end all wars, because my grandfather was there too, but he didn’t die.<\/p>\n

Nineteen-year-old D’arcey was the second son in his family to be killed in France. The first one was George<\/a>, and there would be a third, Frank Percy Shaw, whose name was projected onto the War Memorial on 21st June, a night that was cool but not freezing like tonight.\u00a0 I wrote about him here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As I was leaving around the back of the Memorial I saw four kangaroos standing guard in the dark.\u00a0 They’re delightful at a distance and are happy to be photographed from a car window, but if I’d got out and approached them they would have either hopped away or hopped towards me and treated me as an enemy.<\/p>\n

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Kangaroos at the back of the Australian War Memorial<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The next date that I will have a relative’s name up for viewing is in early spring.\u00a0 I’m happy knowing it won’t be another chilling evening.<\/p>\n

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Tonight at 7.52 when it was 6 degrees Celsius and blowing an icy gale, I took this photo of D’arcey Richard Nottingham Shaw’s name projected onto the Australian War Memorial.\u00a0 It was hard to hold my camera still in the wind, but the photo is not too bad.\u00a0 D’arcey was killed in action on The … <\/p>\n

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