A storytelling, interactive smartphone app has been developed to commemorate the important role and sacrifices of Gallipoli ANZACs from the Moreton Bay Region.
The app, titled ‘Once Upon a Wartime’, was launched at the Corso in North Lakes, Queensland recently by Mayor Allan Sutherland.
While the topic has been the subject of booklet printing by authors and newsletter printing by RSL clubs throughout the nation, the new app brings to life the experiences and history of the Moreton Bay region’s World War One participants with virtual technology, according to the mayor.
This was something he said would have been considered out of the realm of possibilities by the first ANZACs.
He said research for the ‘Once Upon a Wartime’ app had taken four years, with staff at Moreton Bay libraries beginning with names recorded on local honour boards and First World War memorials.
Mayor Sutherland said the names had helped uncover almost 800 service personnel stories.
Digital copying of historical photographs and the use of animation has helped create the app, which reveals a very different world of 100 years ago.
The mayor said the app highlighted the stories of three of Moreton Bay’s real-life residents and would be of great interest to everyone, including visitors, students, family historians and ANZAC descendants.
The story is told by 18-year-old Redcliffe draftsman Will Short, who travels to Sydney to enlist.
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