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Whilst searching for e-books on line I inadvertently came across a link to Cemetery’s in Australia having had an uncle die whilst on munitions work in 1942 and he was not married our family having had poor news of the event due to ships carrying mail being sunk it was the third letter sent that reached my mum I am the last of our family line and no family member ever been to Australia

So I looked at this link it was about photograph’s of graves in various cemetery’s.
I knew from my mum he was buried in St Mary’s Anglican cemetery..... worth a look I thought sure enough there was a photo logged of a grave with his details I noted the photo number and sent an email thought well at 13.30 here on Christmas Eve it will be after the holiday to my surprise back came the photo of a well tended headstone and the kind lady said she will visit the grave which is at the other side of Adelaide to where she lives over the holiday and will place a bunch of silk flowers ( she said these would last longer ) and send me some photo’s of the grave with the flowers on.
On the grave is a nice flower vase with his name on who put this there ?? the answer I will never know but someone in 1942 thought enough to place it there

Who said there were no nice people out there.
By pure chance I have found one I just wish my mum was alive to see the photo's

Alf
 
Alf 1 said:
On the grave is a nice flower vase with his name on who put this there ?? the answer I will never know but someone in 1942 thought enough to place it there
Who said there were no nice people out there.
Alf
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Could it be the Commonwealth War Graves Commission? They are pretty good at this sort of thing.
 
It is indeed a nice story Alf.

Keep us posted on any future happenings.

Merry Xmas.
 
Possibly one of these John

1.
Cemetery Records Australia
5 Aug 2010 ... Australian Cemeteries lists by state, and then alphabetically by place name, cemeteries in Australia. It lists contact details, ...
National - Australian Capital Territory - New South Wales - Queensland
Cemetery Records Australia - Cached - Similar
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Australian Cemeteries Website
'australian cemeteries with linked cemetery details, burial registers, headstone transcripts and photographs for your family history.
NSW - Vic - Qld - South Australia
Australian Cemeteries Website - Cached - Similar
3.
Australian Cemeteries Index
The index contains details of headstones from a number of cemeteries in Australia. It initially concentrated on cemeteries in regional NSW but is now ...
austcemindex.com/ - Cached - Similar
4.
Australia - Cemetery Records Online - Search Cemeteries
Contains lists of names and dates taken from headstones in rural and urban cemeteries, sorted by state and region.
Untitled Document - Cached
5.
 
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Thanks Tony I had sent a PM to John it was not easy to retrace my steps... I was searching for an e-book author and as it sometimes happens one of the hits on my search engine was about South Austrailia Cemetery's this sparked an interest and I followed the link--then another and I never saved any of then as I had no idea where I was to end up.

While searching for the link for John I have found quite a few that do it for money and cannot give a guarantee of a result.

The 3rd link was this one Australian Cemeteries Website I then followed to the St Mary's Anglican cemetery and there I found the grave there is a link to follow for photo's and this turns out to be a Austrailian Cemetery Volumteer A very nice lady
I await the second photograph with the flowers
I do feel there more to this story note the size of the grave Tom was unmarried and had emigrated to Austrailia in 1925 he was sheep farming but went to sign up for the war and was sent to do munitions work instesd he was living in a lodging house at the time so why a double plot....
was there a lady friend !!!!

Alf
 

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cemetries websites

cheers alf for the info.

me dad was killed in aussie when i was 2 and the info may lead me to find where he is buried.:cool:

ta
 
cemetries websites

bevo said:
cheers alf for the info.

me dad was killed in aussie when i was 2 and the info may lead me to find where he is buried.:cool:

ta
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Bevo I hope you get the same result as I did it was a chance encounter on a completly different search.Do you have any details on how or where he was killed
I wish you luck and if I can help at all I wiii

Alf
 
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hi alf.
i made contact through one of the websites, with a very kind guy in australia.
iv'e given him some more information and he's looking into it for me.

once again ta:cool:

keep you posted if i find anything.

yours everybody bevo
 
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Bevo I hope you get a good result and find your fathers grave if you follow the links I gave to the St Mary's Cemetery and look for the email link I am sure the lady would help you as well I dont want to give her email out here and I cannot PM you.
Alf
 
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hi alf.
we're getting somewhere, nice guy down under has located loads of information for me.
he's doing further research for me, and i must say it looks very promising.
i can see a trip to oz coming up:cool:

once again cheers alf
 
dad's grave

got word today from the undertakers who arranged dad' s funeral.
where he was buried,plot number and everything.

ta alf for this thread.

have to see if i can get a cheap flight to ozz:cool:
 
Bevo I am glad you got a result.
I have had 6 new photo's of grave with a bunch of silk flowers on and some general one of the cemetery in Adelaide.
Where abouts is your dad buried, did you get a photo ?
Alf
 
dad's grave

hi alf
dad was buried in the cheltenham cemetry in addelaide.
due to circumstances he was buried in common land there, so no headstones.
but i have the exact spot where he was buried.
cheers alf
 
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