Burning off in Amiens forestry, Robert Emerson Curtis, ca. 1930s
Courtesy Harslett family. Photograph courtesy Sandra McEwan.
Robert Emerson Curtis (1898–1996) was born in England in 1898. His family migrated to Australia in 1914, settling in Stanthorpe. Curtis worked as an illustrator, cartoonist, official war artist, camouflage officer and architectural draftsman. He was a frequent visitor to Stanthorpe to visit his sister and her family. This drawing depicts the land at Amiens that was cleared and burned for the establishment of the Passchendaele State Forest.
Courtesy Harslett family. Photograph courtesy Sandra McEwan.
Robert Emerson Curtis (1898–1996) was born in England in 1898. His family migrated to Australia in 1914, settling in Stanthorpe. Curtis worked as an illustrator, cartoonist, official war artist, camouflage officer and architectural draftsman. He was a frequent visitor to Stanthorpe to visit his sister and her family. This drawing depicts the land at Amiens that was cleared and burned for the establishment of the Passchendaele State Forest.
Courtesy Harslett family. Photograph courtesy Sandra McEwan.
Robert Emerson Curtis (1898–1996) was born in England in 1898. His family migrated to Australia in 1914, settling in Stanthorpe. Curtis worked as an illustrator, cartoonist, official war artist, camouflage officer and architectural draftsman. He was a frequent visitor to Stanthorpe to visit his sister and her family. This drawing depicts the land at Amiens that was cleared and burned for the establishment of the Passchendaele State Forest.