General Meeting this Saturday

 We look forward to seeing members and guests at our next General Meeting. 

President, Cheryl-Ann, is hoping to meet and chat with members.

Vice-President, Jill, our guest speaker, will talk about her One-Place Study - CareyBay2283 - People and Places Past and Present and the resources she uses to manage the project.

On this Day...

 In 1970 Mrs D Baker of Carey Bay won a prize from The Women's Weekly for her household hint. We'd love to find Mrs Baker.

On this Day in 1966...

 ... Mrs M Parkinson of Carey Bay won $2 for her recipe contribution to the Women's Weekly. We wonder if members of her family still live in our district.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47470659

Trove Tuesday - Lives lost in Lake Macquarie

 In this post we remember some of those people who have lost their lives  in our Lake.

1878 'COUNTRY NEWS.', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 19 December, p. 6. , viewed 29 Mar 2022, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13426498

1903 'BOATING FATALITY.', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 22 December, p. 5. , viewed 29 Mar 2022, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14588390

The remainder of this long article can be read via the link above.

1933 'FELL OVERBOARD INTO SEA', The Labor Daily (Sydney, NSW : 1924 - 1938), 4 January, p. 5. , viewed 29 Mar 2022, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article237062749

1939 'PROMPT RESCUE BY LAUNCH', Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), 28 November, p. 7. , viewed 29 Mar 2022, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article135454500

The remainder of this long article can be read via the link above.

1946 'Child Drowned at Coal Point', Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), 4 September, p. 2. , viewed 29 Mar 2022, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133164268

1952 'Lake Search For Airman's Body', The Newcastle Sun (NSW : 1918 - 1954), 29 September, p. 3. , viewed 29 Mar 2022, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article160329081

Private Albert Harris, Australian Army Ordnance Corps

Thanks to Gary Mitchell for permission to share this post on our blog.

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27 October 2021

Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery, will my Honour and Dignity be restored?

80 years ago today, on the Monday afternoon of the 27th October 1941, Private Albert Harris,
Australian Army Ordnance Corps, 1st Australian Pioneer Battalion (Reg No’s - 428 & 4312A), apprentice fitter (engineer) and Warrant Officer, from 15 Northumberland Street, Mayville, New South Wales and "Birkenhead", Coal Point, N.S.W., father of two (Joan and Rosalind), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 45. ANGLICAN 2-115. 9.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article134073343 - funeral notice states service.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article134071465 - obituary.

Born at Islington, New South Wales on the 26th June 1896 to Albert Edward and Annie Elizabeth Harris nee Matters; husband of Dorothy H L Harris nee Chettoe (married 1929, Carey Bay, N.S.W. or Waverley, N.S.W., died 1984, unmarked grave, sleeping side by side, ANGLICAN 2-115. 11., 43 years a widow), Albert enlisted July 1915 with the 30th Battalion at Liverpool, N.S.W.

Recalled by the Railway Commissioners.

Reenlisted April 1917 at Newcastle, N.S.W.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133750230 - send-off from the Smedmore Mechanics' Institute.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138747281 - report that Albert has arrived safely in England.

Admitted to hospital 16.3.1918 (trench nephritis and bronchitis).

Albert returned home October 1919, being discharged on the 13th December 1919.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140068911 - report that Albert is returning home.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140068478 - report that Albert due to arrive home soon.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140074574 - welcome home.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article162596390 - welcomed home at the Smedmore Literary Institute.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article162595160 - report that Albert had returned home (with photo).

Mr. Harris’s name has been inscribed on the Cooks Hill Superior Public School Roll of Honour, Islington St. Mark's Anglican Church Roll of Honour, Wickham Municipal District Roll of Honour Board (1), Honeysuckle Point Railway Workshops Roll of Honour (photo, unveiled on the 25th May 1915, 10 names originally inscribed, 44 names now inscribed, 5 Fallen), Newcastle Amalgamated Society of Engineers Roll of Honour, Newcastle Loyal Union Lodge Manchester Unity I.O.O.F. Roll of Honour and the Newcastle 39th Fortress Company, Australian Engineers' Roll of Honour. Name probably inscribed on the Smedmore Mechanics' Institute Roll of Honour. Name not listed on the NSW Govt Railways and Tramways Roll of Honour, 1914-1919.

I located Albert resting in an unmarked grave, now long forgotten, so December 2018 I placed a cross adorned with poppies on the gravesite, taken a photo of the grave and uploaded the photo onto the Northern Cemetery website as a permanent record of his service.

http://sandgate.northerncemeteries.com.au/.../index.php...

I submitted an application to DVA October 2020 asking for a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque, curbing and marble chip, but unfortunately STILL waiting for a decision.

Lest We Forget.

School on the lake

It's School Holidays - there's a sailing school in session on the lake.

Trove Tuesday - John Julian de Meyrick

1919 'TORONTO.', Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), 10 July, p. 6. , viewed 30 Jun 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139437839

Captain Julian Frank De Meyrick's name is inscribed on  The Toronto and District Soldiers' Memorial that was unveiled in 1922. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140016035.

The year after the Captain's return from overseas the De Meyricks welcomed a son, John Julian De Meyrick.

1920 'Family Notices', Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), 21 June, p. 4. , viewed 30 Jun 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138832899

Some time after John's birth the family moved to the Liverpool area in Sydney. 

John followed in his father's footsteps enlisting in the AIF in1939.

NAA : B883 NX4006

1940 'COUNTRY SOCIAL NOTES.', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 4 January, p. 18. , viewed 30 Jun 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17651083

1941 'Missing In Greece', The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate (NSW : 1894 - 1954), 5 June, p. 4. , viewed 30 Jun 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131297507Add caption

1941 'Colonel's Son Believed Killed', The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 - 1954), 23 August, p. 2. , viewed 30 Jun 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article247503451

John Julian de Meyrick is memorialised on The Athens Memorial within the Phaleron War Cemetery in Greece.