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Royce Woodhead – a soldier in the making

29/08/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

North Kalgoorlie School Cadets, winners of the best shooting school cadets. Taken in 1909. Back row ? SMITH, Jack BACKHOUSE, Captain Lionel JEFFRIES, E STRANGER, Eric LEAN Front Row:  Royce WOODHEAD, Tom CLEMENTS, B CAPLE,  Sid KINGS. Young Royce Woodhead would have been about 14 yrs old in the above photograph, although he look younger, […]

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Filed Under: People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales, Soldiers Story Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia, WW1

The Last Australian at Gallipoli:

06/06/2020 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

The following story was recently sent to me by Ian Shaw. He told me that he had lost track of a relative by the name of Eli Shaw.  This is what he said- It wasn’t until I started looking outside Victoria that Eli Shaw again appeared, this time hunting for gold on the Eastern Goldfields […]

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Filed Under: Soldiers Story Tagged With: Australian History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia, WW1

Two Soldier Brothers – by Marcia McIntyre

09/11/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The following is a guest post from the Family History of Marcia McIntyre Bert and Cyril Longmore were first cousins to my mother, Alice Mary Jones nee True.  Although the Longmore family left Gundagai when Bert was only a small child and moved to Melbourne, then Western Australia, the family always kept in contact with […]

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Filed Under: People, Soldiers Story Tagged With: Bullfinch, Goldfields History, Western Australia

The Boyland Brothers:

01/10/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Young men “turned to stone”. George Boyland George Boyland was born in Garden Gully, Bendigo, Victoria, on the 8th March 1872. The son of a miner, he and his brother and sister moved with their parents from Victoria to Queensland, and then around 1894 to Western Australia. He seems to have travelled back and forth […]

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In Search of Mordaunt Reid:

21/09/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

More than one third of the 62,000 Anzacs who died in WW1 are still listed as missing with no known graves. This is the story of one woman who never stopped looking for her soldier. Lieutenant Mordaunt Reid was paid the ultimate accolade by war historian and correspondent, Charles Bean, on the morning of the […]

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Filed Under: People, Soldiers Story Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Western Australia, WW1

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