NEXT OF KIN WANTED
The Sydney Morning Herald 7 Sep 1916
The Brisbane Courier 26 Oct 1916
The Argus Melbourne 7 Jul 1917
The Brisbane Courier 6 Sep 1917
NEXT OF KIN WANTED
The military authorities request the next of kin
to No 3482, Private Charles Clarence Evans,
47th Battalion, to communicate at once with
the A.A.G., Victoria Barracks, Brisbane,
The Brisbane Courier 30 Oct 1917
NEXT OF KIN WANTED
The military authorities request the
next of kin ofBrisbane No 4095, Private Henry
Patrick Murphy, 31st Battalion, Aus-
tralian Imperial Force, to communicate
with the officer in charge, Base Re-
cords, Victoria Barracks, Melbourne, as
early as possible.
The Brisbane Courier 5 Nov 1917
NEXT OF KIN WANTED
The military authorities request the next of kin of
No. 3017?, Private A. Wright, 25th Bat-
talion, A.I.F., to communicate with the Offi-
cer in Charge, Base Records, Victoria Barracks,
Melbourne, as early as possible.
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill) 21 Nov 1917
The Brisbane Courier 23 Feb 1918
NEXT OF KIN WANTED
The military authorities request thenext of kin of
No. 4618/4382, Private J. J. Walsh, 12th
Reinforcements, 31st Battalion, A I F , and No.
3134 Private P. J.Downing, 8th Reinforcements
47th, Battalion, A.I.F., to communicate with the
Officer in Charge, Base Records, Victoria
Barracks, Melbourne.
The Brisbane Courier 26 Sep 1918
NEXT OF KIN WANTED
The military authorities desire thenext of kin of
No. 4209. L-Cpl. W. C Sorensen. 26th
Btn., to communicate with the A.A.G., Victoria
"Barricks, Brisbane, at the earliest possible
moment.
The Brisbane Courier 22 Oct 1918
NEXT OF KIN WANTED
The military desire the next of kin of No.
7082, Corporal Richard George Elliott, 15th
Battalion, to communicate with the A.A.O.,
Victoria Barracks, Brisbane.
The Queenslander 23 Nov 1918
NEXT OF KIN WANTED
The military authorities desire the next of kin of the following soldiers to communicate
with the Officer in charge, Base Records, Victoria Barracks, Melbourne, at the earliest
possible moment:
No. 2315, Pte. A. E. Yarra, 3rd Fld.Art. Bde. Amm. Column; 5050,
Pte. R. F. Martin, 13th Rfts., 25th Battn.; 228, S.S.M. J.P. Edginton, "A" Sqdn., 5th Light Horse Reg.;
1710, S.S.M. H. W. Birkbeck, 7th Battery, 3rd Fld. Art.; 1713, Pte. T. Markey, 2nd Rfts., 25th Batt.;
1000, Pte. C. E. M. Duff, 7th Rfts., 2nd Light Horse Regt.; 17, Sgt. J. Blackman, "A" Coy., 28th Battn.;
886 L./Cpl. F. Nethersole, 3rd Pioneer Battn.; 5081, Pte. P. J. Nelson, 14th Rfts.. 31st Battn.;
6620,Pte. E. Saunders, 19th Rfts., 26th Bttn.; 973, Pte. E. L. Redwell, "D" Coy., 25th Battn.
The military authorities request that the next of kin of No. 7100, Private James Stanley, 49th,
late 9th Battalion, should communicate with the A.A,G., Victoria Barracks, Brisbane.
The military authorities request the next of kin of 6886, Private William Wilson, 25th
Battalion, and 44,883, Private R. Williams, New Zealand Force, to communicate with the A.A.G.
Victoria Barracks, Brisbane.
The Brisbane Courier 26 Nov 1918
NEXT OF KIN WANTED
The military authorities ask the next of kin of
the following soldiers to communicate with
the Officer In Charge Base Records, Victoria
Barracks, Melbourne at the earliest moment -
7238, Private R. T. Edwards, 24/9; 2310, Private
C. S. Graham, 4/41; 543, Private P. Harvey, 5th
L.H.; 3509, Sergeant G. Miller, 8/26; 1678,
Private W.H. Moroney, M.M., S A.S.C.; 31922,
Private F. A. Rowe, F. Artillery; 5654, Private
H. D. Snowdon, 11/3 F.A. Bde.; 230, Private J.
Shaw, D. Co., 25th Btn.; 3671, Private H. Wilson,
8/25 Bde.; 115, R.Q.M.S. B. Woodcroft, 9th Btn.;
3137, Private J. M. Woods, 2nd L.H. Mac. Gun
Co.; 2632, Private E. Cunningham, 18/2nd L.H.;
1113, Private H. C. Harwicke, 7/5th L.H.;
413, Private J. Johnston, 25th Btn.: 3289, Private
F. E. Monk, 11/9th Btn.
The Brisbane Courier 19 Dec 1918
NEXT OF KIN WANTED
The military authorities desire the next of
kin, of Second Lieutenant, A. Reid. A Company,
26th Btn, to communicate with the Officer in
Charge Base Records, Victoria Barracks, Mel
bourne, at the earliest possible moment.
The Brisbane Courier 14 Jun 1919
The Queenslander 10 Jan 1920
Examiner Launceston 23 Jun 1920
Cairns Post 19 Dec 1923
A GUIDE TO FOLLOWING THE TRAIL
for those who have aren't familiar wth the records available, especially using SODA.
To follow up on these soldiers' stories, first stop should be National Archives Australia, record search.. at
For this example, I have used the very first name..
2239 Pte. S.T.Turner.. we know by the date that is is WW 1. What we don't know at this stage is his Christian names, but having the service number will be all we need..
Just fill in the surname, select WW1 from the drop down menu and then the service number, click search.
That will bring you to this page...we know it's the correct person as we have that all important service number.
In the top right hand side, you will see View Digital copy.. click on that and next will be this.. you can see that an Uncle is listed as Next of Kin, with an address, given as "Uncle G. Turner, 81 Regent St., Redfern". So, we have a name and address as NOK, so why couldn't they find him..
Beside the image you will see a different NOK M Walker Mary Jane. When and why did that change and why couldn't she be found. Click through to P 2.. and you will see this notice.. last entry.. killed in action.
Following that, go to page 5.. note that the entry says killed in France, then Place..not yet to hand... hence Missing in Action.
If you wanted to have a copy of the whole 66 pages, you could simply download an image of each page, tedious and time consuming. There is another way...Note the Barcode above .. in this file it is 1921449. Go to SODA... http://soda.naa.gov.au and Click on Barcode retrieval..enter the Barcode and the file is there for you. There is a big difference from the original file to this... look for the list of symbols.. the one I am most interested in, is the printer. A choice again, you can print the whole 66 pages as a .pdf, pr you can be patient, wait a few seconds and you should see a window with options for printing..note that PDF on the bottom bar has a drop down option, click on that and you can simply save as a .pdf.
If you continue reading through to p.16, you will note that there is a new address added as well as Samuel's mother's name, Mrs.M.J. Watkin, as contact, so at least we know that they could find a NOK after all. Another interesting fact is on p. 23, Samuel's will, whereby he leaves all to Mrs. Percy Watson.. who was she? Then on p.24... more detail re will..
From p.25, we learn that Samuel was Killed in Action on 7th Aug 1916. P.27... note that Samuel's war medals were returned unclaimed by the earlier mentioned Mrs. M.J.Walker.. yet see p.31, and Mrs. Walker signed for Samuel's effects on 19th Mar 1923. it seems the Army didn't give up. P.34 shows us that Mrs. Walker was Samuel's mother.
P. 39.. Mrs. Watson is named as Samuel's cousin...slowly this story is coming together.
Still with me... ? P.39 explains who Mrs. Walker was and who she is by 1923.. you have to keep reading... p. 48 could change everything... then again, so could p. 53 and 54... this is bigger than Ben Hur.. p.65, we're nearly finished... shows the cousin, Ruby Watson, didn't get what she was after. However, there are more than 66 pages, up in the 80s, though some are blank.
It pays to look for the story behind the initial story .. we started with just one name "2239 Pte. S.T.Turner " By searching further, we have an uncle, cousins, mother, father, and did you see we also have a brother's name, which we could easily follow.. I'll leave that to you.
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Interesting -so much more detail when you do the research patiently.
ReplyDeleteThere is always more to find... and yes, it does take patience. Thank you for your support and comment, Flissie.
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