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Monthly Archives: June 2017

The Battle of Fromelles – 19-20 July 1916, Australia’s darkest day

GSQ Blog Posted on June 26, 2017 by Geraldine LeeJune 26, 2017

And all this madness [WWI], all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilisation and our hopes, has been brought about because a set of official gentlemen, living luxurious lives, mostly stupid, and all without imagination or heart, have chosen that it should occur rather than that any one of them should suffer some infinitesimal rebuff to his country’s pride – Bertrand Russell For many Australians, Australia’s contribution in the Great War is defined almost entirely by the Anzac … Continue reading

Posted in DNA tests, First Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.), WW1

The life of a pioneering woman!

GSQ Blog Posted on June 19, 2017 by Joan RiekJune 19, 2017

Often, we read the obituaries of our male ancestors which tell us much about them, however, little is told of how hard the females had to work in those pioneering days. Just picture a block of land that has not been cleared, completely unliveable, and yet our ancestors turned the property into a liveable property, on which they supported themselves and their family. In this blog I would like to tell how hard it was for my great grandmother, during … Continue reading

A matter of time

GSQ Blog Posted on June 12, 2017 by Pauline WilliamsJune 12, 2017

Time is ever-present, but our perception of it seems to be elastic, changing with age, anticipation or dread, or memory. How often have you said “I can’t believe that it’s “…x or y… years” since that happened. As I get older, I use significant events that are etched in my memory as a way of putting a timeframe on other things that happened around that time either in my life or on a wider level. I’ve recently started to create a timeline … Continue reading

Tagged George Bradshaw, railway guides, time, timelines

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