Peter Lord: Vietnam conscript and photographer, on documenting the memory of war from ww1 newspaper Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 7 min 26 sec
✓ Published: 23-Apr-2015

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Retired newspaper photographer Peter Lord was a long-haired surfie with good times and girls in his sights when his marble dropped in 1968. Suddenly conscripted to fight in the Vietnam War, he naively made the most of it by trying to embrace the chance to travel and work on his photography. In the years since he has photographed veterans and Anzac services across Tasmania and interstate, including the funeral of Australia's last WW1 veteran, Frank McDonald. He does it with a vetran's sense of hi