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 […]
The Boyland Brothers:
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 […]
In Search of Mordaunt Reid:
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 […]
Unmarked First World War Graves to be Commemorated:
From:- Vetaffairs Autum 2019 p17 A number of unmarked graves of World War veterans who died after returning from the war will be commemorated under a two year pilot program. Administrated by the Office of Australian War Graves (OAWG) the unmarked graves of the First World War Program will provide funding to help ex-service organisations, […]
Fighting Sons of the Empire – Westonia WW1
The following records have been very kindly sourced by Graeme Monaghan, I would like to thank him for all his hard work:- The following is a list of the men who joined up for WW1 in Westonia WA. It is not a comprehensive list, as there may be others we have not yet found. As […]
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