Lavington & District Family History Society Inc. in Lavington, New South Wales | Community organisation

Lavington & District Family History Society Inc.

Locality: Lavington, New South Wales

Address: Manual Activities Centre, Nowland Avenue 2641 Lavington, NSW, Australia

Website: lavingtonfhg.wix.com/lavingtonfhg#

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23.01.2022 DON'T FORGET! Our meeting is tomorrow night, Monday 3rd February, commencing at 7.00pm in the Manual Activities Centre, Nowland Ave, Lavington (behind the pool). Looking forward to seeing you all there.

20.01.2022 BLUE AND RED ENSIGN The Red Ensign is the same as the Australian National Flag (which can be referred to as the Blue Ensign), except with a red instead of a blue background. The Union Jack in both flags keeps its own blue background. This means in black and white photographs of the flag, it is usually possible to tell which ensign the flag is: In the Blue Ensign, the shade of grey will be uniform between the background of the Union Jack and the rest of the flag, whereas in t...he Red Ensign, the background of the Union Jack will be a darker shade of grey than the rest of the flag. This is important as most photographs of the first half of the 20th Century, during which the Red Ensign was used widely, are of course in black and white. On the 3rd Sep 1901, following Federation, the Australian National Flag (Blue Ensign) became the official national flag of Australia, and has remained so ever since. At the same time, the Red Ensign became the flag of Merchant Naval Shipping, and has remained so ever since. From 1901 to now, the Blue Ensign has been consistently used by Federal and State Governments, and has been the official flag of the Australian military. In the first half of the 20th Century, specifically from 1901 to 1953, the Red Ensign was also widely used in Australia in unofficial capacities.. Manufactured in large numbers by flag makers, well beyond the demand of Merchant Naval Shipping Used by various local governments (councils) and other institutions outside Federal and State governments Used by many soldiers in World Wars 1 and 2 Regarded by many in the general public as the flag of Australia 1953 Flag Act: The Blue Ensign is confirmed by legislation as the chief national symbol by law, custom and tradition and its official title becomes the Australian National Flag. Excerpts from http://www.anfa-national.org.au//anf/blue-and-red-ensigns/

19.01.2022 From: The Albury Banner & Wodonga Express 5 March 1920

19.01.2022 We have this photo in our collection which attributes it to George Krautz or possibly Samuel Collins. Can anyone help with the story?

18.01.2022 For all those clever people out there - here are a couple of miscellaneous photos. Help us solve the puzzle.....what or who do you know? Hint: (maybe) Eisenhauer-Carstens families.

17.01.2022 An email received refreshed a memory of an extraordinary tale of the Australian spirit... So picture this. It’s 1932 and Australia is in the grip of the Great Depression....Continue reading

16.01.2022 ' (Abridged version) by Helen Forest Adelaide archaeologist Ian Moffat is on the hunt for the final resting places of potentially hundreds of thousands of forgotten Australians, but he has no intention of disturbing the dead.... : - - .....Dr Moffat, a senior research fellow at Flinders University, is currently investigating the number of unmarked gravesites across the country. Over the past two centuries, parish registries have been lost, wooden headstones burnt, and multiple people have been buried in plots without any documentation. Experts believe there could be more than 100,000 unmarked graves in Australian cemeteries.(ABC News: Dean Faulkner) Using a less expensive and invasive technology, ground-penetrating radar (GPR) looks for lines in the soil that show where new graves have been dug over time, and where existing graves have been dug up and added to. The lines remain for hundreds of years after the soil has been moved. Dr Moffat believes GPR technology could be rolled out across the country as a more effective way to understand the cultural significance of cemeteries and preserve them. Read the full story at https://www.abc.net.au//archaeologists-searching-/12198996

15.01.2022 Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels. The image above shows a Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel the term for Papua New Guineans who came to the aid of Australians in the Kokoda campaign helping a blinded Australian soldier as he walks along a track. It’s a picture that captures the connection between two cultures. The Coastwatchers were the forerunners of today’s Special Forces. They observed and reported on Japanese positions and movements and came to the rescue of downed Allied airmen and seamen. Young... men from the islands trained with the Australians at Tabragalba. They were armed with US M1 Carbines, better for jungle fighting than the Army’s bolt-action Lee-Enfield .303, and deployed back to their homeland on US submarines. The Papua New Guinean Coastwatchers (wasmen) were the eyes and ears of the Australians in a place where white men stood out. The formula worked well, and the intelligence provided by the Coastwatchers would prove critical to the Allied effort. Few in Australia would be aware of these stories today. The Australian emphasis on the Kokoda Track campaign means that far more people are likely to know about the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels. We need to preserve the stories of the young Papua New Guinean men who served with Australian soldiers and formed bonds of comradeship with them. Courtesy of https://www.lowyinstitute.org//remembering-png-wasman-seco See more

15.01.2022 LEST WE FORGET...........Memorial to Albert Charles Andersen. Service Number 60326, 16th N.S.W. General Service. Place of Birth Lavington, N.S.W. Place of Enlistment Henty, N.S.W. Farm labourer. Aged 22 years and 9 months. Albert died at sea. His name is on the Australian War Memorial - Panel 185. Note on the back reads "Enlisted 12th July 1918, died 17 Oct. 1918. Aged 19 years 11 months.... [Thanks to Kiewa Valley Historical Society] See more

15.01.2022 Does anyone out there have photos or information about Lavington and families around the 1930s in connection with the following areas -Fruit & flowers, Gold, Silk, Staples and Stone & Wood? Feel free email them to the Society, they would be most appreciated knowledge for a future exhibition. Picture Left: Ron Andersen on Donnet's horse Picture Right: Glenmorus House (where crematorium now stands)

13.01.2022 NOREUIL HAS A HISTORY Many Albury people, particularly those who have come to the town of late years, do not realise that the name Noreuilgiven to our beautiful and peaceful river parkis the name of a village in France captured in the dawn of April 2, 1917, during an action in which many Albury men took part. Controversy has often raged about the spelling or name, but the Albury Municipal Council has definitely adopted the French spellingN-o-r-e-u-i-1. A restful and delig...htful spot, Noreuil Park brings back memories to the diggers who crawled with grim determination along that gully in France in the half light of a fateful April morning. Perhaps this account wrung by the "Mail" from Mr. Murdoch McKenzie will recall vivid recollections in the minds of other diggers......... Read the rest at our website: https://lavingtonfhg.wixsite.com/lavingto/lavington-history - Press Button 'Anzac Day 2020'

11.01.2022 Early in World War II, the Commonwealth of Australia selected Albury and Wodonga for large military training camps and for ordinance, storage and repair units. The first training camp was for the 2/23rd (Albury’s Own) Infantry Battalion and opened in 1940 with 800 men. Later in the war, the numbers of soldiers stationed in the two towns and at Bonegilla and Bandiana rose to between 8000 and 11,000, and in addition thousands of Australian and American troops passing through by train had to be fed. There was also a Royal Australian Air Force storage base at Ettamogah and a camp for Italian prisoners-of-war at Hawksview, near Lake Hume. Albury became something of a garrison town. Thanks to https://haberfield.net.au/history/1940-1949-the-wwwii-years/

08.01.2022 IN APRIL: 1770 - Captain James Cook first sights Australia and lands at Botany Bay. 1843 A Post Office was established in Albury.... 1846 - Edwin Flack known as "Teddy" was Australia's first-ever Olympian and its only competitor at the 1896 Olympics in Athens. He won Gold in the 1500 metres running and won the 800 metres two days later. 1848 - German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt is seen for the last time at McPherson's Station, Coogoon, before he disappears on the same expedition to reach the Swan River in Australia. 1898 - Whim Creek WA recorded the highest rainfall: 747.0 1984 - Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, with green and gold the national colors. 1986 - 90th Boston Marathon: Rob de Castella first Australian winner in 2:07:51. 1996 - Fastest wind speed ever recorded (not a tornado) 408 km/h (113 m/s) during tropical cyclone Olivia on Barrow Island, Australia. 2018 - 21st Commonwealth Games open in the Gold Coast, Australia. Anzac Day, 25 April, is one of Australia’s most important national occasions. It marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War. More than 8,000 Australian soldiers had died in the campaign. Gallipoli had a profound impact on Australians at home, and 25 April soon became the day on which Australians remembered the sacrifice of those who died in the war. What became known as the Anzac legend became an important part of the identity of both nations, shaping the ways in which they viewed both their past and their future. One of the most brilliant generals of World War I and an architect of Anzac Day, Sir John Monash helped create the Anzac legend by ensuring the courage of his men was enshrined in Australian history.

08.01.2022 The Memorial Gates at the entrance to the Urana Road Oval in Lavington, were officially opened on 17th June 1957 by D.G. Padman M.L.A. The walls on either side of the two red-brick pillars formed the memorial gate entrance to the grounds. The lists below are as recorded on the war memorials register for WW2 veterans (https://www.warmemorialsregister.nsw.gov.au). ‘ If you feel there are any omissions or errors please let us know.... 2020 marks 75 years since the end of the Second World War. To commemorate this important year, the NSW Government is interviewing WWII veterans about their experiences. Read the 75th Anniversary Stories on the website above https://www.warmemorialsregister.nsw.gov.au/nsw-stories

05.01.2022 EXCERPTS FROM LOSTCOUSINS NEWSLETTER:. The Black Death epidemic devastated Europe between 1346-53 and is thought to have killed between one-third and one-half of the population. The Great Plague of 1665-66 was the last significant outbreak of bubonic plague in England - but although it killed an estimated 75,000 to 100,000 people in London, more than one-fifth of the population the city at the time, its impact was trivial compared to the Black Death. ... In 1666 the villagers of Eyam in Derbyshire were quarantined in order to prevent the spread of Bubonic Plague to the surrounding villages. According to BBC News- 260 residents of Eyam died of the plague between 1665 and 1666. Unlike COVID-19, bubonic plague rarely spreads directly from one human being to another - but the villagers of Eyam weren't to know that. On the other hand, had they left the village they would probably have taken fleas with them, in their clothing and other belongings, or even in their hair - so in practice the quarantine was both necessary and effective. In the 17th century nobody understood how bubonic plague was transmitted - indeed, it was only in the 1890s that it was discovered to be caused by a bacterium that was carried by fleas from rats to humans. Whereas in 2020, we're guided by the advice of medical experts. We are not being asked to sacrifice our lives, but our freedom of movement - and given what we know about the virus it makes perfect sense. Only the young, who think they're invincible, and the foolish, who don’t think at all, can screw it up for the rest of us.

05.01.2022 Australia Day 1988

04.01.2022 THE COMMEMORATION OF THE END OF WWII IN THE PACIFIC - 15/08/2020 By the middle of 1941 the war had started to hit home. In February 1942, many Australians thought that the Japanese would invade Australia. Anticipating enemy air attack, blackout restrictions were introduced and air raid warning instructions issued. Barbed wire was also strung across many east coast beaches. Everyone was encouraged to go 'all in' to support Australia and Australians at war. Women took new roles... in essential industries working in what had previously been male-dominated industries. School children collected bottles, newspapers, old tyres or anything else that could be recycled for the war effort dominated areas. In June 1942, rationing was introduced, and ration books were issued for food (meat, tea, butter and sugar) and clothing. Australians were forced to practise thriftiness in their everyday lives. Petrol was also rationed. In the Pacific, there were 22,376 Australian POWs held by the Japanese forces in World War II, including women who were Australian Army nurses. Conditions in these prisoner-of-war camps were terrible. Food and clean water to drink were scarce, shelter was very basic. Starvation and malnutrition were the POW's most critical problems. Inside the compound, POW quarters usually consisted of rows of two or three-storied bunk beds with either traditional Japanese Goza (woven straw mats) or tatami (straw mattresses) on the wooden bunks. Bare bulbs were used for the lights, and heat came from firepots or stoves made from shipping drums. In most camps blankets were provided by the camp, however, many POWs reported that the severe winter cold adversely affected their health. The soldiers who guarded them could be violent and the soldiers had to work very hard even if they were sick or injured. There weren’t enough medicines or proper medical equipment for treatment. Many prisoners of war died while imprisoned and many who escaped were recaptured. They were forced to engage in the hard labour of constructing railways, roads, airfields, etc. to be used by the Japanese Armed Forces in the occupied areas. He most notorious was the construction of the BurmaThailand 'Death Railway'. Post war, many POWs share an intense appreciation for life’s most basic values. Like bread and butter, a bit of jam on your toast in the mornings, a glass of beer when you’re thirstywhen it comes to the end, the only thing that matters, are the people whom you love and who love you, (Dr.Kevin Fagan. -POW in Changi and Thai-Burma Railway referred to as a man who excelled in matters of heart and duty the most inspiring man I have ever met).

04.01.2022 SGT. CHARLES BISHOP........................................LEST WE FORGET. Born Urana 12/9/1895. Lived in Prune Street, Lavington as a child and went to Lavington Public School until 11 years old, when his mother died and he had to go to work. He had two sisters. In a nine-week rampage at the outer reaches of human courage, this 24-year-old man had earned three of the highest decorations bestowed in Australian soldiers the Military Medal, the Bar to the Military Medal and t...Continue reading

04.01.2022 LEST WE FORGET and repeat the past. https://iancoate.com/