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Originally posted by harry
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It said somewhere this man liked to gamble. This could help explain the hand me downs. -
No evidence at all that he was a gambler.My name is Dave. You cannot reach me through Debs email account
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Do you want to bet on that?Originally posted by DJA View Post
Thems the Vagaries.....Comment
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A possible employer in the 1940s would have been the Hawthorn Telephone Exchange,375 Burwood Road,next door to Swinburne.My name is Dave. You cannot reach me through Debs email accountComment
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That would mean he was a Public Servant employed in the PMG Department.Originally posted by DJA View PostWhy 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.Comment
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Good possibility.
Not much else requiring electrical engineers back then.
The Hawthorn Exchange was bigger than it looks,with much of it underground.My name is Dave. You cannot reach me through Debs email accountComment
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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. AbberlineComment
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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. AbberlineComment
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A search on the Dept of Veterans' Affairs nominal roll indicates he was was not.Originally posted by Abby Normal View Post
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.Comment
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Yes, I believe even in Australia that clothing was rationed during the war, and had only just ended when he died.Originally posted by Abby Normal View PostComment
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Yep.Still rationing clothing here in 1948.My name is Dave. You cannot reach me through Debs email accountComment
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thanks enigmaOriginally posted by Enigma View Post
A search on the Dept of Veterans' Affairs nominal roll indicates he was was not.
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. AbberlineComment
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