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HALIFAX A military museum in Halifax recently put out an online call for help after acquiring a Second World War era photo depicting an all-Black volunteer fire brigade in the city. The photo shows 16 men and three women, posing in front of a building dressed in suits and dresses, all wearing their metal military-style fire warden helmets and armbands identifying them as part of a volunteer neighbourhood unit. The mystery is slowly coming to light as to who all those (people s) names are, Chara Kingston, collections manager at the Army Museum Halifax Citadel, said in an interview Thursday. Kingston put out a tweet Monday asking for help identifying the people in the photo and said that as of Thursday her inquiry was starting to yield results.
HALIFAX The Army Museum Halifax Citadel is home to hundreds of Christmas cards and gifts exchanged between soldiers and their loved ones during both World Wars. Some of the themes on the cards include hand-painted pictures of home. “Which would make it worse sometimes for the soldiers because they were so homesick,” says Ken Hynes, curator at the museum. “But, the tradition continued. The sentiments that were written in the cards –although short sometimes – really did say a lot to the people receiving them because they were there, written in pen and ink.” For many soldiers, Christmas cards were sometimes a way to express loneliness, and hope for better days.