Longreach Gum Tree Research in Longreach, Queensland | Professional service
Longreach Gum Tree Research
Locality: Longreach, Queensland
Phone: +61 428 580 258
Address: Jabiru Street 4730 Longreach, QLD, Australia
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15.01.2022 We will remember them By Elaine Blackwell I am no where near old enough to remember the parades, the young men in their uniforms, or the calls to enlist. I ne...ver knew my great-uncles, Tom, Ivo and Peter. Nor did I know Jim, or any of their other comrades. How can we be expected to honour the memory of those we never knew? Well, I remember http://australiagreatwar.com.au/we-will-remember-them-4/
10.01.2022 Studio portrait of Australian Aboriginal Prisoner of War (POW) 360 Private (Pte) Reginald Francis Hawkins, 42nd Battalion, from Jericho, Queensland who enlisted... at the age of 23 on 29 October 1915 and embarked for overseas on 5 June 1916 aboard HMAT Borda. He was hit by a shell in the left leg and right side of the head and captured at Armentieres, France, on 14 February 1917. A report from a fellow soldier stated; "I knew Hawkins who had been a buck jumper rider, and had travelled with a show. About the 14th February we were near Armentieres and the Germans made a night raid. They got into our trench but were quickly ejected. After the raid Hawkins and I believe another man were missing. No trace of Hawkins could be found, and it was believed that he had been taken prisoner". After he was taken prisoner, Pte Hawkins was assigned the POW identity number 6.6518, the first 6 referring to his Prisoner group in the camp. He can be seen wearing this number on his prisoner uniform. Private Hawkins was held as a POW in various camps in Germany until he was repatriated to England on 10 January 1919 and arrived back in Australia on 12 May 1919. Private Hawkins is the brother of the Roughrider (horsebreaker) Harry Hawkins of the 2nd Remount Unit. One of a series of over 400 photographs sent by Australian POWs in German camps to Miss M. E. Chomley, Secretary, Prisoners Department, Australian-British Red Cross Society, London. Original album housed in AWM Research Centre at RC00864, Album image number 293. See more
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01.01.2022 acc 85.7.9neg 49936Sotiris Cominos abd his staff at the cafe. Sotiris is at the back. The man at the left is Nicholas Vreltos Comino, the man at the right is Theo Gianouji Sotiris' nephew
