IDNO

DG.167334.RPT

Description

A scan of a booklet with the title 'Australia for the British Boy' and an illustration of a farm where a man riding a horse is waving to a person standing beside two cows. [KK 08/08/2023]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Poignant, Axel

Collector / Expedition

Date

Collection Name

Poignant Collection

Source

Poignant, Roslyn

Format

Digital File

Primary Documentation

Other Information

DG.167113.RPT - DG.167351.RPT were located on a blue 'Seagate backup plus' hard drive in a box now numbered C1035/.

DG.167295.RPT - DG.167351.RPT were located in a digital folder named "Scans to be filed."

Related Archive: Roslyn Poignant keep a portrait of Axel and his little sister in Swedish costume, which she discussed in an interview Martin Thomas: "In his high school years he lived in Stockholm. He was unhappy and a bit wild as a teenager. His aunt who was the masseur in England was very important to him – more important than his mother in a way. She gave him money for a Leica camera in 1934. She saw information on the scheme for young people to go to Australia and advised the parents.
This was a scheme for British boys, but they were prepared to recognise Axel as such on account of his father’s war service. He was one of the last youth migrants to go to Skyville on the Hawkesbury River in NSW.
[Roslyn showing the British Boy cover of Australian pamphlet recruiting British Boys as migrants.]
Description of the cover which was designed to encourage child migrants. Axel was 19 so not exactly a child migrant – he was much older and better off than the majority of participants in the scheme.
Axel wanted to go to Australia very much. He bought a second hand camera on boat going to England. Wrote to his parents saying he would make a ‘picture story’ about his journey to Australia." (Interview transcriptions by Martin Thomas 30/09/2004). [JD 23/08/2023]