Norma Bissaker and Frank Bissaker on their wedding day, 1941

Studio portrait of the wedding party at the marriage of NX57392 Lieutenant Frank Sherral Bissaker and Norma Sherrie Bissell. The attendants are Horrie Bissell and Nita Bissell and an unnamed flower girl.

Lt Bissaker, a member of the 2/13 Battalion, was killed in action in Egypt on 29 October 1942. Lt Bissaker is listed on the Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial.

Mrs Norma Bissaker's dress is in the collection of the Australian War Memorial. You can read a little about it in our blog post called Wedding dresses, part 2

Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions.

This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection www.awm.gov.au

Persistent URL: cas.awm.gov.au/photograph/P08343.001

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    krist3, lomeliii, klaramelliot reid, eftimov-schenk-schwartz, and 71 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. anneinparis16 (42 months ago | reply)

    This is so similar to many other wedding photos from this time - including of our family members! Nice that something so personal made it into the AWM collections!

  3. Australian War Memorial collection (42 months ago | reply)

    Thanks annieinparis16 we do have lots of personal photographs in the collection, not just your 'military' sorts of photos (although of course we have a lot of those too!). Sometimes the personal photographs are followed by sadness as the soldiers did not return from war. I often think these photographs capture a lovely happy moment and this may be the last visual memory a family has. See this image for a photograph like that cas.awm.gov.au/photograph/P04495.004
    Jo

  4. wellentratsch (41 months ago | reply)

    oh.. this is a lovely photo!

  5. WERI FOUNDATION (40 months ago | reply)

    So sweet

  6. besu25 (40 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Fascination Nostalgia, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  7. Luis Chacón [ nodroc ] (39 months ago | reply)

    que bonita

  8. D O D A H ~ (37 months ago | reply)

    So Nice ...

  9. besu25 (37 months ago | reply)

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    The photo is beautiful and please your photo in the group

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  10. Yousef Malallah (34 months ago | reply)

    This is a masterpiece!

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  11. A.K.M.Ali hossain. (34 months ago | reply)

    Fin photo.

  12. Old Farts on Parade (23 months ago | reply)

    I remember these type of shots, this is where I learned to colour photos before I even touched a camera. Thanks for the memories

  13. JY:) / J. Yeaman (20 months ago | reply)

    This is lovely, is it hand tinted?

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  16. Dave's Youth Sports (15 months ago | reply)

    It's definitely hand colored, we take color photos so much for granted nowadays. This photo demonstrates the best of a photographer's talent in the pre-kodacolor days (Kodacolor came into use in 1942).

  17. mambo1935 (11 months ago | reply)

    beautiful!

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