Sometimes you can find out so much from them! (As with the ones on ancestry, of course)
Just found this letter in the papers of one of my rellies:
To the Officer in Charge of Military Base Office, Melbourne.
Sir,
Would you kindly let me have all particulars of Charles Lambert Brown who enlisted I believe about 2 years ago. I am his mother and have only just heard that he has gone to the war. His address was Charles Lambert Brown, Cambooya, Queensland. If you would kindly let me know I should be very grateful as he is the only child that I have.
And oblige,
Julia A Brown.
They had to write back telling her that he had died in action two months previously. She had five sons altogether and the other four had all died in infancy or childhood. I was wondering why I couldn't find her death (nor her husband's second marriage). Have to look for a divorce now... when I've finished reading through all 61 pages of the army records, which also contains Charles's will (he left everything to his father except for his monogrammed gold watch which he left to his half-sister. I wonder whether he knew his mother was still alive?)
Just found this letter in the papers of one of my rellies:
23 Fitzroy Street,
Milson's Point,
9th Oct 1918
Milson's Point,
9th Oct 1918
To the Officer in Charge of Military Base Office, Melbourne.
Sir,
Would you kindly let me have all particulars of Charles Lambert Brown who enlisted I believe about 2 years ago. I am his mother and have only just heard that he has gone to the war. His address was Charles Lambert Brown, Cambooya, Queensland. If you would kindly let me know I should be very grateful as he is the only child that I have.
And oblige,
Julia A Brown.
They had to write back telling her that he had died in action two months previously. She had five sons altogether and the other four had all died in infancy or childhood. I was wondering why I couldn't find her death (nor her husband's second marriage). Have to look for a divorce now... when I've finished reading through all 61 pages of the army records, which also contains Charles's will (he left everything to his father except for his monogrammed gold watch which he left to his half-sister. I wonder whether he knew his mother was still alive?)
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