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11 April 1918 : Pte Jack Whiteley
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Youngest of five children and of three boys: William and Allen and then Jack. Parents, Fenton (a foreman at a woollen cloth manufacturer) and Ann Elizabeth (née Relsish), at the time of her son’s death his mother was living at 273 Scout Hill, Dewsbury. At the 1911 Census, the family of seven lived in a 4 roomed dwelling in Ravensthorpe. Jack's...
Street Memorials in South West Rocks, NSW
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South West Rocks is a small town with a population of about 5000 on the mid north coast of New South Wales, about 400 kilometres north of Sydney. Located where the Macleay River enters the Pacific Ocean at Trial Bay (named after the brig Trial, which was wrecked in the area in 1816 after being seized in Sydney Harbour by escaping convicts), the...
‘Hades’ Henchmen: The Australian Tunnelling Companies and ‘Alphabet Company’: 1916-1919’ by Damien Finlayson
(This article was originally published in Stand To! No.83 (August/September 2008) pp.6-13. It is made freely available as key material for the online course The Imperial Western Front created in conjunction with the University of Kent). Introduction By mid-1915, ten specially formed British tunnelling companies were already on the Western Fron...