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Queensland Nurse – Agnes Katharina Isambert

GSQ Blog Posted on November 2, 2020 by guestbloggerNovember 4, 2020

By Marg Doherty I enjoy researching women, but I get frustrated when I see only birth information for women and no more. This is one reason why I research WW1 nurses from Queensland. When I was asked to write this blog, I thought I would write about a nurse whom I had not fully researched. For this reason, I selected Agnes Katharina Isambert and I have found a fascinating story. Agnes was born in Queensland and had a difficult childhood, … Continue reading

Posted in AIF, Australian Imperial Forces (A.I.F.), Female Ancestors, nurses, World War I, World War One

Getting to know Grandma Daley.

GSQ Blog Posted on September 14, 2020 by Robyn DeanSeptember 14, 2020

My late mother in law often spoke fondly of her Grandma Daley who she loved and greatly admired. In researching her life, I soon came to realise that she had faced many challenges, heartache and tragedy during her life. Lilian Tregenza Delve was born 11 May 1879 in St Johns Wood, Middlesex, England to John Hockridge Delve and his second wife Jane Downing Tregenza.1 Joy turned to tragedy when Jane died just 9 days later. Within a year, her father … Continue reading

Posted in family history, Goldfields, Kalgoorlie, Uncategorised, Western Australia, World War I

Tributes to two Townson brothers from Toowoomba

GSQ Blog Posted on August 6, 2018 by guestbloggerAugust 6, 2018

by Janice Cooper   Oh for the touch of a vanished hand            And the sound of a voice that is still. On the 18th September 2018, 100 years after the death of Toowoomba born Private Stanley Joseph Townson on the Western Front, Paul Shepperd will fulfil a wish the soldier’s father, William Townson had for his son’s grave by placing two lines of poetry at his memorial in Bellicourt British Cemetery, Picardie, France. Paul, an … Continue reading

Captain Fred’s War

GSQ Blog Posted on March 26, 2017 by Geraldine LeeMarch 27, 2017

One hundred years ago World War I was in its third year. Thousands of Australian soldiers were fighting for Britain against Germany and the Austro-Hungarian empire. Newspapers published reports from the frontline and lists of casualties that told of the horrors of war. Recruiting posters encouraged men to enlist, to keep hope alive in the trenches and at home. A soldier blinded by a shell burst wrote a poem calling to ‘the lads back home’ to join the fight:-   … Continue reading

Posted in Australian Imperial Forces (A.I.F.), History Queensland, World War I

Wheeler Project – Reflections

GSQ Blog Posted on December 25, 2016 by Geraldine LeeDecember 30, 2016

Annie Wheeler’s index of Central Queenslanders serving in the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) has enabled Genealogical Society of Queensland (GSQ) volunteers to document the lives of more than 2,700 Australian men and women who fought and died and World War I. Their service records, housed in the National Archives of Australia (NAA), show the diseases from which they suffered – scabies and diarrhoea, trench foot, venereal disease, influenza and tuberculosis – as well as the battle injuries that either killed … Continue reading

Posted in 'Doc' Evatt, Annie Wheeler, Australian Imperial Force (AIF), Geneva Conventions, National Archives of Australia (NAA), Uncategorised, World War I

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