Perth Voice Interactive

THE folks from the Vincent Men’s Shed are hard at work crafting 200 crosses for Anzac Cottage’s Remembrance Day.

The Mt Hawthorn cottage was built in one day during the Great War as a memorial that also served as a home for a returned serviceman: it was bestowed on Cuthbert John Porter when he returned from the landing at Gaba Tepe.

Private Porter’s granddaughter Anne Chapple still tends to the house, now a museum, and with Remembrance Day on the horizon she wants the crosses to serve as an anchor for lots of individual narratives. “At Anzac Cottage when people come for open days, they’ve always got stories of individual soldiers in their own family,” she says.

“I wanted something for people to commemorate individually.” And she’s hoping people will cover the crosses in photos, poppies or tributes.

Anyone with a family member who went to an Australian war can get the crosses free from Ms Chapple through http://www.trybooking.com/GAFQ

by DAVID BELL