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  • jason_c
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    • Feb 2008
    • 966
    #31
    Originally posted by harry View Post
    Hope this latest find leads to a solution. One thing I find odd is the suggestion the clothes ,or part of them were hand me downs.Surely an electrical engineer would be earning enough that he wouldn't be in a situation where he needed hand me downs?
    It said somewhere this man liked to gamble. This could help explain the hand me downs.

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      • DJA
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        • May 2015
        • 4700
        #32
        No evidence at all that he was a gambler.

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          • Al Bundy's Eyes
            Chief Inspector
            • Sep 2019
            • 1776
            #33
            Originally posted by DJA View Post
            No evidence at all that he was a gambler.
            Do you want to bet on that?
            ​​​​​​
            Thems the Vagaries.....

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              • DJA
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                • May 2015
                • 4700
                #34

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                  • DJA
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                    • May 2015
                    • 4700
                    #35
                    A possible employer in the 1940s would have been the Hawthorn Telephone Exchange,375 Burwood Road,next door to Swinburne.

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                      • DJA
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                        • May 2015
                        • 4700
                        #36
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                          • Enigma
                            Detective
                            • Aug 2019
                            • 311
                            #37
                            Originally posted by DJA View Post
                            A possible employer in the 1940s would have been the Hawthorn Telephone Exchange,375 Burwood Road,next door to Swinburne.
                            That would mean he was a Public Servant employed in the PMG Department.
                            Why a four-year-old child could understand this report! Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can't make head or tail of it.

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                              • DJA
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                                • May 2015
                                • 4700
                                #38
                                Good possibility.
                                Not much else requiring electrical engineers back then.
                                The Hawthorn Exchange was bigger than it looks,with much of it underground.

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                                  • Abby Normal
                                    Commissioner
                                    • Jun 2010
                                    • 11906
                                    #39
                                    if im not mistaken, hand me downs were much more prevalent back then, regardless of your age or backhround (unless you were rich) and especially during war time.
                                    "Is all that we see or seem
                                    but a dream within a dream?"
                                    -Edgar Allan Poe


                                    "...the man and the peaked cap he is said to have worn
                                    quite tallies with the descriptions I got of him."
                                    -Frederick G. Abberline

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                                      • Abby Normal
                                        Commissioner
                                        • Jun 2010
                                        • 11906
                                        #40
                                        was webb in the military or intel during the war?
                                        "Is all that we see or seem
                                        but a dream within a dream?"
                                        -Edgar Allan Poe


                                        "...the man and the peaked cap he is said to have worn
                                        quite tallies with the descriptions I got of him."
                                        -Frederick G. Abberline

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                                          • Enigma
                                            Detective
                                            • Aug 2019
                                            • 311
                                            #41
                                            Originally posted by Abby Normal View Post
                                            was webb in the military or intel during the war?
                                            A search on the Dept of Veterans' Affairs nominal roll indicates he was was not.

                                            DVA's Nominal Rolls
                                            https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/ww2

                                            Why a four-year-old child could understand this report! Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can't make head or tail of it.

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                                              • Joshua Rogan
                                                Assistant Commissioner
                                                • Jul 2015
                                                • 3205
                                                #42
                                                Originally posted by Abby Normal View Post
                                                if im not mistaken, hand me downs were much more prevalent back then, regardless of your age or backhround (unless you were rich) and especially during war time.
                                                Yes, I believe even in Australia that clothing was rationed during the war, and had only just ended when he died.

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                                                  • DJA
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                                                    • May 2015
                                                    • 4700
                                                    #43
                                                    Yep.Still rationing clothing here in 1948.

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                                                      • Abby Normal
                                                        Commissioner
                                                        • Jun 2010
                                                        • 11906
                                                        #44
                                                        Originally posted by Enigma View Post

                                                        A search on the Dept of Veterans' Affairs nominal roll indicates he was was not.

                                                        DVA's Nominal Rolls
                                                        https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/ww2
                                                        thanks enigma

                                                        interesting. wonder how he got the undectable poison he used to kill himself then?!?
                                                        "Is all that we see or seem
                                                        but a dream within a dream?"
                                                        -Edgar Allan Poe


                                                        "...the man and the peaked cap he is said to have worn
                                                        quite tallies with the descriptions I got of him."
                                                        -Frederick G. Abberline

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                                                          • DJA
                                                            *
                                                            • May 2015
                                                            • 4700
                                                            #45
                                                            Digitalis - Wikipedia

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