Vocational training for returned service personnel – car repair class

Men working in a workshop at a car repair class.

About this record

Vocational training was one of the services provided by the Repatriation Department to help veterans return to civilian occupations. This photograph is from the album ‘After – The Digger Carries on’, which includes photographs of soldiers undertaking vocational training following the First World War.

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Theme

A ward for the totally and permanently incapacitated in an Anzac hostel.

First World War

From 1914 to 1918, over 324,000 Australians served overseas in the First World War, with two-thirds becoming casualties. Their experiences had long-lasting effects on them, their families and society.