Echoes of war in Avoca : the service and sacrifice of small rural community in two world wars / Ron Mumford
- Bib ID:
- 5758136
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Mumford, Ron
- Description:
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- [Avoca, N.S.W.] : Avoca Australia Remembers Committee in association with Berrima District Historical & Family History Society Inc., 2011
- 119 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., 1 map, ports. ; 30 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9780957747654
- Summary:
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"Avoca is one of the most beautiful areas in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. A large number of men and women from this small village left their farms and families to serve their countries in two world wars. This book contains a short biography of each of those named on the Honour Rolls in the Avoca Hall."--Back cover.
- Full contents:
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- Private James Cleary
- Private William Joseph Cunningham
- Lance Corporal Albert Robert Freemantle
- Corporal William Francis Freemantle
- Trooper Sidney Herbert Goodfellow
- Private John Russell Jackson
- Sergeant Reginald Austin Jackson
- Corporal Harold James Ragg
- Trooper Peter Patrick Seery
- Private Alwyn Stephen Speechley
- Corporal Eric Charles Starkey
- Lance Corporal Allan Hamilton Turnbull
- Trooper Andrew William Turnbull
- Private Oliver Edwin Turnbull
- Sapper William Patrick van Gelder
- Private Harry Waters
- Private Leslie Waters
- Private Darcy Braidwood Wright
- Private William James Adams
- Corporal Emilie Norma Akhurst
- Private Hazel Mary Akhurst
- Flying Officer Keith Allan Akhurst
- Private Edward Charles Birch
- Private Stephen Reginald Birch
- Corporal Daphne Helen Bresnahan
- Private Leonard Hamiton Cass
- Leading Aircraftsman Reginald John Flynn
- Leading Aircraftsman Albert Robert Freemantle
- Gunner Gordon Cendric Goodfellow
- Corporal Irving Goodfellow
- Private Stanley Joseph Goodfellow
- Stoker Robert Percival Herbert
- Private Norman Scott Hope
- Private Thomas Henry Jackson
- Corporal Denis Walter Minehan
- Flying Officer Alan Sidney Monaghan
- Corporal Marie Francis Monaghan
- Corporal Raymond Moult-Spiers
- Lance Corporal Peter Joseph O'Reilly
- Lance Bombardier Noel Keith Perkins
- Sapper Gordon Ronald Pigram
- Sergeant Kenneth Malcolm Pigram
- Private William John Reid
- Private Ronald Leslie Shepherd
- Corporal John Norman Barnier Starkey
- Sergeant Alan Gordon Strode
- Private James Edward Strode
- Private Gordon Keith Virtue
- Private Neville Douglas Wright
- Private Russell Alxander Wyatt.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 118-119).
- Subject:
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- Soldiers -- New South Wales -- Avoca -- Biography
- Women soldiers -- New South Wales -- Avoca -- Biography
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Australian -- Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Australian -- Biography
- War memorials -- New South Wales -- Avoca
- Avoca (N.S.W.) -- Biography
- Avoca (N.S.W.) -- History, Military
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2011
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