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"Wild Eye", the Souvenir King

from National Science and Media Museum

• 62 older comments, and then…
• Calm Range said:

  the picture says it all...I wonder how many of these momento's he actually got home..

• BobMeade said:

  That's Private John "Barney" Hines:
  
  cas.awm.gov.au/photograph/E00822

• Ken said:

  the last times I've seen you on the max show .... lol

• Australian War Memorial collection said:

  You can read a little more about Private Hines in the online version of an exhibiton we did a few years ago called Fifty Australians. He became quite famous because of this photo, which was first published in late 1917.
  
  Liz (admin at the Australian War Memorial)

• BobMeade said:

  Thanks, Liz from AWM. That's a good piece about Mr. Hines which you have linked.

Officers and Privates

from North East Museums

• 1 older comment, and then…
• Dang Lan said:

  Wonderful!

• gwyliecoyote said:

  Pretty cool, not dated? 1913 was the year prior to WWI.

• Wooway1 said:

  Fascinating that part of the War effort would include apatriotic appeal to the blind. Any chance these are former servicemen blinded in the Great War?