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Introduction

The Sharing Their Legacy project developed out of an idea put forward by the History Trust and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs at the SA State History Conference at Mannum in 1999, to enthusiastic response from many historical groups from around South Australia.

The History Trust put a proposal to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs for a collaborative exhibition project that would involve at least ten groups, each one producing an individual display or research project about their localities’ war heritage.  When the call was put out for participants, seventeen groups were signed up to take part, so the project was bigger than anticipated from the very beginning!  And with a broad brief that allowed participant groups to look at any aspect(s) of their war heritage and in relation to any war(s) it is little wonder that the project produced the variety and scope of history that it did.

Project Aims

• To highlight the role and contributions of veterans in all theatres of war
• To add, through new research and interpretation, new information about communities’ war experiences to the historical record
• To facilitate collaboration and networking between unrelated community and historical groups
• To involve the community, community groups, RSL clubs and schools in the gathering, preservation and telling of war heritage
• To show the diversity of wartime experiences both from community and veterans’ experiences and to connect war to everyday life.

Sharing Their Legacy was made possible through a grant from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs through their Their Service Our Heritage project (now called Saluting Their Service).

The History Trust acknowledges the dedication and hard work of the participants in the project in making their localities’ war histories come alive.