In the 40 years that he’s been restoring family war relics, Neville Crawford has framed everything from soldiers’ letters to Japanese bayonets and a Navy jacket.
Medal master: Neville Crawford from Recherche Speciality Picture Framing in Northcote.The client picked up the World War II ammunition while walking the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea.
It’s the time of year when people planning to march in Anzac Day events realise that the ribbons on their great-grandfather’s war medals need replacing, or they order replica medals because two family members are marching. Bigger jobs have included Crawford framing, for Ivanhoe RSL, the first American flag on the beach during the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in 1942. The campaign to retake Guadalcanal from the Japanese was the first major American Pacific campaign in World War II.
Kim Munro picks up a wall piece showing a photo and medals of his late WWI soldier grandfather Andrew Waugh.On Saturday, Recherche client Kim Munro, 70, of Tullamarine, picked up a framed memorabilia piece of a World War I photo and medals of his grandfather, Andrew Waugh.
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