The service, on the eleventh day of the eleventh year at 11am marks the end of hostilities for World Way one with the signing of the armistice. The service not only remembers the events of World War One, but pays tributes to sacrifices made by Australian members of the armed forces in subsequent conflicts.
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Kurri Workers Club will be having its annual service in the park.
They are asking people to arrive after 10.30am, to head over to the park for the service at 10.55am.
Cessnock RSL will be having a service at the Cenotaph at Cessnock TAFE grounds at 11am.
This week we continue our series of excerpts from Col Maybury's script "A Mother's Story of Gallipoli" and the letters written by his grandmother, Mary Ann Drummond in search of more information on her lost son, Private Victor Emanuel Farr.
August 23, 1915: Catherine Hill Bay NSW
To the Sec of Defence
Dear Sir, I received a Cablegram on 15th June stating my son V.E. Farr was wounded and since then although making inquiries in both Sydney and Melbourne, I have been unable to find out the nature of his wound or locate the hospital in which he is in and it is now 10 weeks since I first got a cable stating that he was wounded.
I may state a young man who left here with my son at the at the break out of war, he is a Corp in the 2 Batt writing to a friend of mine and in his letter which he received on the 20th of this month he states that the first account he got of my son was that the he was wounded but a later account he got was that he was missing.
Now Sir, I think it is your duty, to see or have this seen to for me. I think when a mother gives her son, seeing that he is under age when that son is wounded, she ought to have some news of this nature of his wound and the hospital which he is in.
It is now 10 weeks I think they have had ample time, to let me know something of my son.
Dear Sir I also ask you seeing that I live 22 mile out from Newcastle and work being very slack. I expect you to cable for information for me and oblige me with an early reply.
Hoping that I am not asking too much but I think I should know where my son is and I hope you will give me the information which I am waiting anxiously for day after day.
My son's address, No 828 Private V E Farr 1st Battalion D Company 1st Infantry Brigade, 1st Australian Division, Alexandria Egypt
I remain yours sincerely,
Mrs. M. Drummond, Catherine Hill Bay Via Newcastle, NSW
September 6, 1915
Dear Madam, I am in receipts of your further letter dated 23rd ult., addressed to the Secretary, Department of Defence, concerning the reported wounding in action of your son, No 828 Private V.E. Farr, 1st Battalion, and regret no further particulars have been received since my communication to you of 4th ult., to which I would refer you.
If you can furnish me with the Regimental number, name, and unit to which attached of the Corporal to whom you refer, who states your son is missing, I will institute inquiries by cable message on your behalf and advise you when the result of the same is to hand - - no action, I regret, can be taken by the Department unless this is done, as our reports from Egypt are, on the whole, very correct and the percentages or errors which creep in very small.
Yours faithfully, Capt. Officer i/c, Base Records.
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