Notes: L-R: Dr Adam, Dr Alfred Alcorn, Dr Ferris, Dr Eric Dark, Osmar White. The location may be in the grounds of Varuna, the Dark family home in Katoomba.
Osmar White left Katoomba in 1928 on assignment in PNG and SE Asia, returning in 1933, he drops off the Katoomba electoral roll after 1934. In 1937 he married Olive Allen in N.Z. In 1942 he was posted to PNG as war correspondent and in 1944 was attached to Gen. Patton's Third Army, where he covered the German surrender and was one of the first journalists to enter Buchenwald. Osmar White has been described as "not only one of the finest correspondents of the Second World War but a visionary writer and philosopher of courage and conviction." - Phillip Knightley
Format: B&W photograph
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons
Repository: Blue Mountains Library
library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au
Part of: Local Studies Collection PF 1544
Provenance: Michael Dark
Date Range: About 1933-4
Links:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmar_White
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Dark
See the Local Studies Blog for a biography of Dr Eric Dark -
bmlocalstudies.blogspot.com.au/2011/08/dark-eric-payten-1...
