Our recent ‘fourth Thursday’ class fell on Anzac Day, making the sharing of stories about family members who had served particularly meaningful. In doing so, we created our own ‘memorial event’.
We began by reading ‘Anzac Day’ stories from our ‘Family Stories’ and the ‘As Time Goes By’ collection. There are wonderful stories to be found, including Max Tilbury’s first story presented just this month ‘They could have been Anzacs’ and a poem ‘The Courage of the Horse’ written some years ago by David Lowing ‘.
David Hall revisited the story of his great-uncles, brothers John Clifford Bowers (d.France, August 1916) and Norman Hugh 'Norrie' Bowers, and shared a video segment, ‘Wartime Legacy’, from last week’s Landline, which related to a family connection with the McCaughey family.
Bev reflected on discussions which may have been held around her paternal grandparents and great grandparents’ dinner tables during World War 1 and showed a video ‘Against the Odds--The Victory against Conscription in World War 1’.. Did you know there were two Conscription referendums, with ‘No’ results for both?
Mary drew upon John Barry’s book ‘Whatever of Glory: Those of Benalla & District Who Gave Their Lives in the Great War’ when sharing the story of a forebear, William ‘George’ Clarke, who lived in Goorambat and died in in the Great War.
As Mary read George's story, Bev realised George had married a daughter of Catherine Warren, the first nurse researched by Judith Borthwick for her project ‘Benalla Hospitals and Nurses in the early years of the 1900’s’. Both John Barry and Judy Borthwick’s research began when they were members of John Avery’s ‘Local History’ program and Meg Dillon’s Stories of Benalla’s Past’ courses over a decade ago! David also pricked up his ears on hearing that one of the hospitals was in Lavery Street –David lives in Lavery Street!
Finally, Mary shared a link to Benalla events from Wednesday May 1 to Sunday May 5 on the National Trust’s website. You can also download the timetable of events as a pdf document. We hope to see you there!
The suggested theme for May’s ‘contextual story of an ancestor with a 500-word maximum’ is ‘Disappointments’- ‘Write about a time when you felt profoundly disappointed when doing your research. What triggered this? Who in your family was involved, what effect did it have on you? It may be a disappointment you felt for the person involved, or you felt as you negotiated your family research journey. How did you deal with it?’
Bev Lee
We began by reading ‘Anzac Day’ stories from our ‘Family Stories’ and the ‘As Time Goes By’ collection. There are wonderful stories to be found, including Max Tilbury’s first story presented just this month ‘They could have been Anzacs’ and a poem ‘The Courage of the Horse’ written some years ago by David Lowing ‘.
David Hall revisited the story of his great-uncles, brothers John Clifford Bowers (d.France, August 1916) and Norman Hugh 'Norrie' Bowers, and shared a video segment, ‘Wartime Legacy’, from last week’s Landline, which related to a family connection with the McCaughey family.
Bev reflected on discussions which may have been held around her paternal grandparents and great grandparents’ dinner tables during World War 1 and showed a video ‘Against the Odds--The Victory against Conscription in World War 1’.. Did you know there were two Conscription referendums, with ‘No’ results for both?
Mary drew upon John Barry’s book ‘Whatever of Glory: Those of Benalla & District Who Gave Their Lives in the Great War’ when sharing the story of a forebear, William ‘George’ Clarke, who lived in Goorambat and died in in the Great War.
As Mary read George's story, Bev realised George had married a daughter of Catherine Warren, the first nurse researched by Judith Borthwick for her project ‘Benalla Hospitals and Nurses in the early years of the 1900’s’. Both John Barry and Judy Borthwick’s research began when they were members of John Avery’s ‘Local History’ program and Meg Dillon’s Stories of Benalla’s Past’ courses over a decade ago! David also pricked up his ears on hearing that one of the hospitals was in Lavery Street –David lives in Lavery Street!
Finally, Mary shared a link to Benalla events from Wednesday May 1 to Sunday May 5 on the National Trust’s website. You can also download the timetable of events as a pdf document. We hope to see you there!
The suggested theme for May’s ‘contextual story of an ancestor with a 500-word maximum’ is ‘Disappointments’- ‘Write about a time when you felt profoundly disappointed when doing your research. What triggered this? Who in your family was involved, what effect did it have on you? It may be a disappointment you felt for the person involved, or you felt as you negotiated your family research journey. How did you deal with it?’
Bev Lee
