One Family's History in Objects, Words, Pictures
On the 23rd of August, 1947, a brief article appeared in the Courier Mail calling on Geebung mothers to assemble at 3pm in the Geebung Memorial Hall, now Geebung RSL, [zotpressInText item=”{57GHRQ9A}”] to consider a proposal to form a district … Continued
New Laughton and Man Family photographs have been added to the collection search page. These new photographs include images from the Laughton family’s time in India and Myanmar (Burma) prior to Kenneth Laughton coming to Australia. They also include images … Continued
More collection items have been added to the collection search page from the extensive Donaldson, Laughton, and Man album of family photographs. The photographs listed below also expand the coverage of this album in to the Heath, Lenthall, Husband, Atkinson and … Continued
Some new collection items have been added to the site, from the same family album as my previous post, New Collection Items – Mitchell, Donaldson and Laughton Family Photographs Part 1. Mixed in with these family photographs from the early … Continued
Collection items are slowly being added to the collection search page and I include below some recent additions from an extensive family album. These include photographs that demonstrate the links between three Brisbane families: the Donaldson, Mitchells and Laughtons. Donaldsons … Continued
In July of 2014, I traveled to Balmoral Cemetery in Brisbane with Ian Donaldson to investigate some family history links to number of Donaldson graves that he had previously located. We knew that some of the individuals buried here were … Continued
[columns] [span4] [accordion] [pane title=”Collection Items” start=open] [ehive_object_details object_record_id=”403891″] [/pane] [pane title=”Person Details”] [rootsPersonaHeader personId=’P18’/] [rootsPersonaFacts personId=’P18’/] [/pane] [/accordion] [/span4][span8] Major Robert Johnstone Donaldson, DSO, was the commanding officer of the 11th Field Company Engineers, AIF, for the duration of … Continued
[columns] [span4] [ehive_object_details object_record_id=’404721′] [hr] [accordion] [pane title=”Person Details” start=open] [rootsPersonaHeader personID=P186/] [/pane] [pane title=”Life Events”] [rootsPersonaFacts personID=P186/] [/pane] [/accordion] [hr] [ehive_object_details object_record_id=’404724′] [/span4][span8] This man is Lt. Col. Arthur Frederick Laughton, C.B. and he is my second great grand … Continued
[columns] [span4] [/span4] [span8] A quick post this week, also from the RJ Donaldson postcard collection. An interesting class of cards, including the Sergeant’s Mess card, concern individuals or groups, sometimes named on the reverse and probably intended to be … Continued
One of the postcards from my great-grandfather’s collection is a black and white photograph of nine Australian soldiers, presumably in France or Belgium during the First World War. On the reverse side, the soldiers (except one) have each signed their … Continued
Among the various postcards surviving from my great-grand father’s war service, are a few addressed to his children and sent while on leave to England sometime during the Great War. One set of these cards preserves the story of Robert … Continued