{"id":627,"date":"2024-02-15T13:14:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T13:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/?p=627"},"modified":"2024-12-07T16:05:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T05:05:34","slug":"australian-war-memorial-brings-historic-aussie-love-letters-to-life-in-digital-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/australian-war-memorial-brings-historic-aussie-love-letters-to-life-in-digital-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian War Memorial brings historic Aussie love letters to life in digital collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian War Memorial is calling on the public to assist in transcribing thousands of love letters dating back almost a century.<\/p>\n<p>Launching on Valentine&#8217;s Day, the project will see the digital release of hundreds of thousands of personal letters, diaries and other handwritten documents.<\/p>\n<p>That includes the beginning of Dorothy and Mac&#8217;s 70-year love story, which was penned in hundreds of love letters spanning five years.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_635\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-635\" class=\"wp-image-635 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-53442967-63b2-4deb-b612-53e114dc35bb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-53442967-63b2-4deb-b612-53e114dc35bb.png 768w, https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-53442967-63b2-4deb-b612-53e114dc35bb-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-53442967-63b2-4deb-b612-53e114dc35bb-500x281.png 500w, https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-53442967-63b2-4deb-b612-53e114dc35bb-600x338.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo A Current affair<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Their romance began in 1937, when a 17-year-old Mac met a 14-year-old Dorothy, or &#8211; as he liked to call her &#8211; his darling Dot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He kept on asking me to go out but my father wouldn&#8217;t let me,&#8221; Dorothy laughed.<\/p>\n<p>In 1939, Mac was off to war, but the plan was always to come home to his Dot.<\/p>\n<p>He said to me, When I come back home&#8230;&#8217; he said, &#8216;Will you come out with me then?'&#8221; Dorothy reminisced.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<div id=\"attachment_637\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-637\" class=\"wp-image-637 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-cd7d135a-33a6-4baa-be24-3e078587b373.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-cd7d135a-33a6-4baa-be24-3e078587b373.png 768w, https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-cd7d135a-33a6-4baa-be24-3e078587b373-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-cd7d135a-33a6-4baa-be24-3e078587b373-500x281.png 500w, https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-cd7d135a-33a6-4baa-be24-3e078587b373-600x338.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo A Current affair<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The couple met when Mac was 17 and Dot was 14, but her father would not let the pair date. (Nine)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;I said, &#8216;Of course I will, Mac!&#8217; And then he gave me a kiss and went to war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They wrote letters to each other every week for five years.<\/p>\n<p>Even when Mac was captured by the Germans and became a prisoner of war the letters continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hated him being away, and when the letters came back oh gee they were wonderful,&#8221; Dorothy said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A letter meant he was still alive, you see, so it was so exciting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the best message of all came in April 1945.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-639 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-de6a4cf8-c561-4549-a838-9382d4e31e45.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-de6a4cf8-c561-4549-a838-9382d4e31e45.png 768w, https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-de6a4cf8-c561-4549-a838-9382d4e31e45-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-de6a4cf8-c561-4549-a838-9382d4e31e45-500x281.png 500w, https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-de6a4cf8-c561-4549-a838-9382d4e31e45-600x338.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><br \/>\nMac left Australia in 1939 to fight in WWII. (Nine)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mac had escaped and he was coming home to his darling Dot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hello my darling. What does one say in a moment such as this?&#8221; Dot wrote on April 30, 1945.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have butterflies in my stomach, love in my heart and few words that make sense in my mind. Well Mac, it&#8217;s really coming at last. You&#8217;re almost home&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And he wrote back to that: &#8220;Hello darling. I miss you more now than ever.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately I can&#8217;t find a boat to take me back to you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If they don&#8217;t hurry I guess I&#8217;ll just have to pinch a rowing boat and see what I can do!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When Mac got home, he had some very precious cargo &#8211; half a decade&#8217;s worth of those love letters and a portrait of himself painted by another prisoner of war.<\/p>\n<p>It hangs proudly at the end of Dorothy&#8217;s bed and is the first thing she sees when she wakes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-640 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-8bc4be59-f7c6-4a24-a0ba-4f23802e956e.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-8bc4be59-f7c6-4a24-a0ba-4f23802e956e.png 768w, https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-8bc4be59-f7c6-4a24-a0ba-4f23802e956e-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-8bc4be59-f7c6-4a24-a0ba-4f23802e956e-500x281.png 500w, https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-8bc4be59-f7c6-4a24-a0ba-4f23802e956e-600x338.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now Robyn Van Dyke and Terrie-Anne Simmonds from the Australian War Memorial are sifting through thousands of donated love letters, including Mac&#8217;s and Dorothy&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He not only managed to escape, but he managed to take all her letters with him and that blows me away because it&#8217;s not a small amount of letters,&#8221; Robyn said.<\/p>\n<p>The team is looking for volunteers\u00a0to help ensure those stories &#8211; and all that love &#8211; live forever.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-641 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-1e7d7cc6-05b0-4bac-a053-5ada39d99df8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-1e7d7cc6-05b0-4bac-a053-5ada39d99df8.png 768w, https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-1e7d7cc6-05b0-4bac-a053-5ada39d99df8-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-1e7d7cc6-05b0-4bac-a053-5ada39d99df8-500x281.png 500w, https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-1e7d7cc6-05b0-4bac-a053-5ada39d99df8-600x338.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re asking people to jump online and look at those letters up close and transcribe them,&#8221; Terrie-Anne said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Essentially you can type what they&#8217;ve written so that way everyone can access them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dorothy, who is now 101 years old, had more than 70 wonderful years with Mac before he died in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-642 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-e424b8d3-d12e-4374-a9a8-7a48e661c02e.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-e424b8d3-d12e-4374-a9a8-7a48e661c02e.png 768w, https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-e424b8d3-d12e-4374-a9a8-7a48e661c02e-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-e424b8d3-d12e-4374-a9a8-7a48e661c02e-500x281.png 500w, https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/https-prod.static9.net_.au-fs-e424b8d3-d12e-4374-a9a8-7a48e661c02e-600x338.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was nearly 90, you know. And me I just kept on going and going and going!&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;d be up there watching\u00a0every minute I bet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had such fun. Oh dear we did have fun. We laughed a lot and we cried a lot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we lived &#8211; and that was the main thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to volunteer for the Australian War Memorial&#8217;s project, head <a href=\"http:\/\/transcribe.awm.gov.au\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-554 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/WorldLetterWritingDay_logo-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/WorldLetterWritingDay_logo-1.png 173w, https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/WorldLetterWritingDay_logo-1-150x173.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 173px) 100vw, 173px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian War Memorial is calling on the public to assist in transcribing thousands of love letters dating back almost a century. Launching on Valentine&#8217;s Day, the project will see the digital release of hundreds of thousands of personal letters, diaries and other handwritten documents. That includes the beginning of Dorothy and Mac&#8217;s 70-year love story, which was penned in hundreds of love letters spanning five years. Their romance began in 1937, when a 17-year-old Mac met a 14-year-old Dorothy, or &#8211; as he liked to call her &#8211; his darling Dot. &#8220;He kept on asking me to go out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8829,"featured_media":645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3663],"tags":[3672,3673,3674],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-media","tag-aussie-love-letters","tag-australian-war-memorial","tag-letters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Australian War Memorial brings historic Aussie love letters to life in digital collection - World Letter Writing Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/australian-war-memorial-brings-historic-aussie-love-letters-to-life-in-digital-collection\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Australian War Memorial brings historic Aussie love letters to life in digital collection - World Letter Writing Day\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Australian War Memorial is calling on the public to assist in transcribing thousands of love letters dating back almost a century. 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