Rifleman A. E. Downer's postcards

This is Rifleman A. E. Downer.

Before he was sent to Gallipoli he sent a number of messages home to Calbourne on postcards.

Suggestions:

• Using his postcards and the transcript (download or view here) what were the main things a young soldier liked to include in a message to his family? Using this information write your own postcard. Perhaps use the PhotoCard iPad app.
• Sadly, Albert Downer was soon to lose his life. From what the postcards tell you about him as a person and from information from the Memorials and Monuments website write his obituary for a newspaper. If you have a chance, make a sound recording of your piece of writing.