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WWI recruits @ Blackboy Hill WA - Challenge

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Category: Mystery
Last Updated: 10 February 2017
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  • WWI,
  • 11th Battalion,
  • Photographs
  • Blackboy Hill,
  • Western Front,
  • Unknown Soldiers
  • 1915

NCO Class Blackboy Hill WA, 2 December 1915 - Who are they?Blackboy Hill WA - NCO class 2 Dec 1915 -ex Susan Salvair

WAGS member Susan has this photo in her possession, which presumably includes an image of her great uncle Robert MacBeth, but she doesn't know for sure.

So, the challenge for you, dear genealogists and family historians, is to identify all of the 33 men in the photo.

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More than meets the eye......

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Category: Julie Martin
Last Updated: 25 February 2016
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  • WWI,
  • WAGS,
  • Henderson Smith,
  • Battye Library,
  • Anzac Cove,
  • Gallipoli,
  • 11th Battalion,
  • Photographs
  • Moseley

There’s no doubt, photos are fascinating! Anzac Cove jpg resized

We can be drawn to an image because of its technical excellence or the way it’s been composed. There may be a fascination with the subject or an intrigue as to the context or identity of the photographer. Then too, the provenance of a particular copy of a photograph may be the primary interest because of the story it reveals.

Some fourteen years ago, I found myself drawn to a particular photograph in the pictorial collection of the Battye Library. Recently though, my interest in it has widened considerably. Let me explain….

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Who are you Donald Smith?

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Category: Marcia Watson
Last Updated: 10 February 2016
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Mystery surrounds the identity of Donald Smith

My grandmother’s brother, Donald Arthur Biglin, wrote a brief life story for his children. It began:

I was born at Upper Swan WA on the 17.6.1906. My father William Biglin worked for a Mr Barrett Lennard, who had a farm and vineyard. While my family were at Upper Swan, a very old man was also working on the same farm. Being summer, the heat and long days, work was too hard for him, so he Donald Smith came to live with us, and when I was born I was called Donald. I can just remember him, before he died at Narrogin hospital.

I was 2½ years old when we moved to Cuballing, on to a bush block to develop a farm. ……….

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Bah Humbug! - 10 Curmudgeon Myths

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Category: Genealogy Curmudgeon
Last Updated: 25 February 2016
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Happy Grinchmas...

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

The silly season is once again upon us and we will no doubt experience some Grumps and Curmudgeons in full flight.

For the simple explanation of what constitutes a grump see the definitions under Grumpy page for the 'normal' expectation of what a grump (or curmudgeon) is supposed to be.

So what is a Curmudgeon?

Curmudgeons however live in a much higher plane than that of the run of the mill grump.

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Are you being served? WAGS is........

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Category: News Items
Last Updated: 19 December 2015
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The extra mile...Mike and Gary

Whilst the rest of us are preparing for Christmas, some dedicated WAGS members were hard at work to improve the experience of being in the WAGS Library Non-book area. Thanks Ian and Ian and all those assembled for getting this important project underway !

The Server Room

In order to provide a quieter area for research in unit six, WAGS is building an enclosed air conditioned room to house the server machines that share and store data around our organisation.

The project, designed by Simon and Simon, commenced last Saturday 12th December, when members of the Computer SIG assisted in shifting the long computer table away from the rear wall.

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They came on a boat...

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Category: Genealogy Curmudgeon
Last Updated: 16 December 2015
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Well sorry, they probably didn't...Small boat lost at sea, artist C Leipold, image ex vintage-views.com

Boats are small, ships are big - boats go to and from Rottnest Island, up the Swan river or other estuaries - Ships travel on the ocean or sea & Boats go on Ships.

Anyone who migrated by sea to Australia over the past 200 years (excluding recent refugees) is pretty much guaranteed to have come on a Ship.

Nothing annoys an ex seafarer more than to have his/her life at sea referred to as he/she having spent time on a boat...

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  1. Australasians who count in London.......
  2. The GOONS seminar at WAGS - Sunday 29th November
  3. A chance genealogical find.........
  4. Finding Elizabeth's last resting place

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