Remembrance Day: Lest We Forget

Commemorate Remembrance Day with a minutes' silence, poppy making and collection highlights.

The Museum will recognise a minutes' silence at 11am and encourage visitors to join us. Sound will be turned off in all galleries during this time. 

You're invited to make a tissue paper poppy and add it to our communal wreath on Level 3 from 9.30am to 3pm outside the Tianqi Lithium Connections Gallery. 

Book in for a free Remembrance Day Tour or visit the Reflections and Tianqi Lithium Connections Galleries to view stories and significant 'Objects of Remembrance' from the WA Museum's vast collection, some of which are highlighted below. 

You can enhance your visit by downloading the Gogo Digital Guide, which provides additional information about the objects, including interviews with curators. 

 

Explore Objects of Remembrance 

 

Reflections Gallery

This gallery investigates many perspectives of war and the impacts of war on the home front. See the collection in the Power, Support and Care and The Home Front sections of the gallery. 

Esther Swan's VAD nurse's uniform

Worn between 1916 - 1920 by Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse Esther Swan, this uniform would have been utilised whilst Esther completed tasks including cleaning, kitchen and laundry duties, sanitation chores, and patient care.

Connections Gallery

Look through the Our Place in the World section of Connections Gallery to uncover more of our collection relating to the front, including the highlighted objects below. 

Frederick Bell's Victoria Cross and medals

Lieutenant Frederick Bell was awarded this Victoria Cross for his courageous rescue of a fellow soldier during the Boer War in 1901. He became the first Western Australian to be awarded the Victoria Cross.

William Fenwick Roscoe's bugle

This bugle was used by Lance Corporal William Fenwick Roscoe of the 3rd Field Ambulance C Section at the Gallipoli campaign. Roscoe maintained this bugle was the first ashore.