A little Commonwealth War Graves History : January 5 2024
Was going to be a different day. Someone I have been following on Facebook for a very long time is coming this way. This is no ordinary someone. Mic Whitty started a few years ago cycling in Europe to visit Commonwealth War Graves. All over the Western Front he went. Not enough to do that he cycled across Canada last year. And then New Zealand and now back in his home country. We planned to meet as he cycled from south of Sydney to come past our place in Gordon. Why? I live here and there is a grave in the local churchyard - just one. Well the plan did not go that way - he left Woronora Heights a little late.
I did investing accounts stuff. Then walked to the shops for a few things and to find the memorial headstone. A few flowers on the way - star jasmine
This fab little rose - maybe a dog rose
This really caught my eye - the rose before developed from this tiny bud - smaller than a baby finger tip. And lost its yellow tinge on the way
Bottle brush against the backdrop of the Pacific Highway
This amazing flower in the churchyard - maybe an agave
Close up - a few rain drops still poised.
Finding the headstone was easy - first row and still bright and white. That style of headstone is trade marked to Commonwealth War Graves Commission. They do an amazing job of respecting the fallen
Close up - Private JAA Nute - Labour Service. Aged 41. Not a lot of info available. The second A in his name is Adelong - where he was born in the Snowy Mountains. Did find a memorial mention from Cranbrook School - a private school in the Eastern Suburbs - so clearly from a well to do family
That got me digging into my own family history. My uncle - Anthony Harbord Beale - died in North Africa in 1943.
This is his War Graves record buried in Tunisia. Dig a little and find he died literally 10 days after the Tunisia campaign ended. My recall he was injured in an accident
Found the memorial from Reigate Grammar School - in the town my mother grew up in. And two villages away from where my first house in England was.
More coincidences. His second name was my grandmother's maiden name - and I lived fir a while in a suburb in Sydney with the same name. Since renamed to Freshwater.
Did a quick shopping visit.
Dinner: Cottage pie
Trade action: Adjusted IWM puts. Bought IFL.AX, YAL.AX, RMC.AX
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Finding war records, or normal births/death registers throughout British Empire they had excellent record keeping, always interesting track and trace relatives.
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The Commission has done an amazing job - not only keeping records but also maintaining the headstones and sites
Countries where folk still respect history, sad about the destruction of many landmarks here.
It is sad especially when so many South Africans gave up their lives out of proportion to the population
I visited Delville Wood a few years ago - that hit me so hard - so many South Africans died in just a few days - 776
Visiting the graves shocks one into realization of how extreme the two world wars were, what I always find hurtful was our Bantu, Coloured and Indian forces that went voluntary and never given recognition.
No wonder this country is still so suspicious of each other, How the First World War rewarded white South Africans, but not black compatriots how different things could have been!
Dad mentioned many times rights/wrongs here, born here in 1911, served in WW2! My Grandfather arrived on these shores to fight the Boers in Anglo Boer War then settled, only returned to England once after marrying a widow Ms Oosthuizen.
Australia was the same but has been doing catch up to acknowledge the Aboriginal servicemen and women
One cannot right the wrongs in history, books can be altered and acknowledged.
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