Marooned with the Shackleton expedition on a wilderness of ice, his ship sunk, what did Frank Hurley do? Photos of famed adventurers Douglas Mawson and Ernest Shackleton along with images of the Western Front and Tobruk ensure they'll be remembered forever - Hurley's exploits though go largely unheralded.

When he died in 1928, his funeral became a day of national mourning but post World War II, Haig's name has become synonymous with carnage and futility. We're the Australians and we're here to relieve you'.". In Griffiths' fictional account, he traces Hurley's rise to photographic prominence after running away from his family home in the inner-Sydney suburb of Glebe one night, at age 13. Military historians now make harsh judgments about Douglas Haig, commander of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front. The lions had originally stood on plinths on either side of the Menin Gate at Ypres. Frank Hurley was responsible for some of the most iconic images of the First World War and Douglas Mawson's Antarctic expedition but the famed photographer died a lonely man. Damien Murphy is a senior writer for The Sydney Morning Herald. The images of men and beast floundering in a never-ending sea of mud at Passchendaele came to define World War I in the Australian public's imagination. Members of an Australian field artillery brigade during World War I. 'I knew he was a war photographer and thought "this can't be the same guy, who went with Shackleton and Mawson",' he said. The remaining 400 were smashed on the ice. Their ship Endurance had fallen apart when caught in an ice pack. He established a new party, the Nationalist Party, and won the May 1917 federal election. Frank Hurley visited the Antarctic six times between 1911 and 1932. Out in the cold: Frank Hurley photographing under the bows of the tapped and ill-fated 'Endurance', 1915. They capture horror and nonchalant heroism: "Next day I was awoken by a voice, 'You the Lancashire Fusiliers? Sparing his small pocket camera, he later photographed Shackleton departing on the lifeboat, the James Caird, sailing for a whaling station on South Georgia to send rescue for the rest of the shipwrecked party. Endurance is the first book by Tim Griffiths described as 'a moving portrait of the man behind the legend' which is Frank Hurley. The Tyne Cot Cemetery in Passchendaele, Belgium. Mawson is perhaps Australia's most renowned explorer, feted for leading the first scientific expedition to Antarctica and discovering the south magnetic pole. John Cunningham reports. His mates tried to get him with a chain of rifles but he drowned in the wet earth, begging to be shot. Hard at work: John Vincent, the Bosun of the 'Endurance' mending a net, 1915. The disaster brought condemnation on British army commanders. Sixty-one Victoria Crosses were awarded, nine to Australians. By Frank Coletta for Daily Mail Australia, Published: 08:00 GMT, 30 July 2015 | Updated: 00:13 GMT, 1 August 2015. The race was awarded by the judge to Hurley owing to Wild failing to "weigh in" correctly. The lions were given to Australia as a gesture of friendship, and reconstructed, they have been at the entrance of the Australian War Memorial since 1987. Hurley's team, with the same load, did the run in 2 min. But survive they did when a Chilean tug came to their rescue. War photographer Frank Hurley portrayed death everywhere at Passchendaele.Credit:Australian War Memorial. It was held up in the Weddell Sea c1915. The Typographers Association marked his death with a statement in the press honouring his contributions to the printing profession.

These past few years, the Menin Gate lions have been in Ypres as part of the World War I commemorations but will return to Canberra after Remembrance Day 2017. They put 26 horses on one gun to drag it free. With the ship about to sink, Hurley dived into the freezing water to retrieve his submerged films and plates. Hurley was made the official Australian (Imperial Force) photographer in the First World War. A founding force of Australian documentary filming, Hurley continued to work in exotic places and hostile environments, working up to his death in 1962. 'In PNG the administrator Sir Hubert Murray refused him re-entry. Desperate times called for desperate measure - Mertz is pictured leaving the hut by the trap-door on the verandah roof during the first Australasian Antarctic Expedition led by Sir Douglas Mawson, 1911-1914. He made a movie about it, of course. Hurley's life encompassed countless flying milestones - here he captures a flight of bombing planes of the 1st Australian Flying Corps over Palestine, 1914-1918. Joining Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Hurley risked his life to preserve the legendary motion-picture films and glass-plate images that recorded the extraordinary events of 1916. But, according to a new book, he was never liked by those he made famous. ', In the epilogue to Endurance it is written: 'The things I have seen haunt me sometimes: young men's corpses in mud of no-man's land; shooting our sledge dogs on the icecap; slaughtering unsuspecting gentoo penguins while marooned.'. Australians fighting overseas in World War I had enlisted voluntarily and troop numbers remained buoyant until the enormity of Australian casualties on the Western Front hit home. Mount Hurley in Antarctica is named in his honour. 'Frank Hurley did not have any real friends, he was alienated from his family, that's what puzzled me is that he had such a troubled life and was a loner,' he said. Hurley served in Europe as an official photographer with the Australian Imperial Forces from 1917–18, producing the only colour-plate photographs of World War I. Hurley returned to Antarctica with Mawson on the 1929–31 British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE).

Ice mask on C.T. He is best remembered for the remarkable survival of his entire "Endurance" crew on ice islands, for more than a year, after their ship first became stuck in ice and then fell apart. After returning from the Western Front he flew the final leg of the first air race from England to Australia and took the first planes into PNG in 1920. He railed against officialdom when told his brief was to print censored images that would help convince people back home to vote 'Yes' to conscription. Frank Hurley survived the bloody battlefields of both world wars and Antarctic shipwrecks to become a history-making photographer.

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