Text Box: They remain forever young A Few of the many faces from my book Index on Page 2 of Website

 

Home Page  page  1   Roll Call—Index Page 2      One of the Letters  & Aust. Ice Skating 2013 page 3

How it all Began  page 4    Bauer,Family page 5    Carden Family page 6   

Photos of ww1 & ww2 soldiers KIA page 7  Weddings in our Family 8  

Some of the Ancestors page 9   More Photos page 10  Photo Album  page 11  

Owen Cavanough page 12   Margaret Darnell    page 13   Matthew Price  page 14 

 John Dickins  page 15   The Names in our Family Tree 16    War Service  page 17  They remain forever young  page 18     

Service to Country & visiting CWG’s o/seas.  19     Price Family  in the Channel Islands    page 20   

Price family continued page 21  de Guerin Family page 22  de Guerin family continued  page 23  

A Pictorial Family History page 24 

Adventurers, Pioneers, Clergy & the Military page 25    Honouring our Australian War Dead page 26    

Wedding Bells for Grand-children page 27    My favourite photos of our Family page 28     Digby John PRICE Page 29

Orla Brianne PRICE  Page 30  Zoe KRIWOPISCHIN/BAUER Page 31     Olivia Jade SOLOMON  32

Christian John BAUER  33 Layla Grace PRICE Page 34   Isabella June McALARA  35  

Club Feet, CSNB, Fuch’s Corneal Dystrophy 36

Text Box: “GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT HE LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS” Text Box: [Left] FAUNT, Lindsay Gordon 1920-1941 [Right] CRANSTON, Aylmer Norman 1920-1941 Text Box: “Lord hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need  I ask this in the name of Jesus, our Lord and Saviour. Amen.” Text Box: They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. “LEST WE FORGET” Text Box: [Centre above) CARDEN, Ronald Hugh 1895-1915 [Left] WEBB, William Bryce 1922-1944 [Right] ARTHUR, Leslie Raymond 1895-1915 Text Box: “LEST WE FORGET” A ROLL CALL of the ANZACS, BRITISH, CANADIAN & SOUTH AFRICAN HEROES in our FAMILY HISTORY Book 9 MEIKLE HERBERT 2Text Box: MORE HEROES FROM MY BOOK. HERBERT JAMES MEIKLE, 1921-1943 Prisoner of war. 18th August 1943 The following entry is from the Diary of Glen Skewes in which he wrote at Changi whilst a prisoner of war. Wednesday I am still sick and passing blood, but not nearly as frequently. Sick parade last night and again tonight. Mjr. Stevens - instead of giving me a few M & Bs - just put me on to 3 Cresasols and charcoal. Pains have been on throughout the night and day but have eased up a little this evening. Lower abdomen is as sore as sore can be, it almost doubles me up. I hope tomorrow will bring a big improvement. Bert Meikle died of cholera at 2.20p.m.this afternoon, poor lad - only sick about 24 hours. Another Englishman taken over to isolation with cholera this afternoon. About 400 Natives are about to march in. There has been much shifting about in our lines today. Melbourne newspaper clipping. Grave/Memorial Reference: A13. C. 20. THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY Myanmar BURMA. Herbert Meikle is part of the McDONALD/DIBBLE family. 2. FRANCIS JULIAN AUDLEY MACKWORTH, 1876-1914 His war grave is IV. D. 10. VIEILLE-CHAPELLE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY, LACOUTURE Locatilty Pas de Calais FRANCE. 3. Major DIGBY MACKWORTH, 1868-1900 He was killed in action at the engagement at Wagon Hill, Ladysmith, January 6th, 1900. He was the eldest son of Colonel Sir Arthur William Mackworth. Lieutenant ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER PAUL MACKWORTH, 1876-1917. 13th Bn., Rifle Brigade attd. M.I.5 - His grave is at the New corner OXFORD (HOLY CROSS) CEMETERYUK . He died on active duty. no photo available. 3 brothers from the same family lost their lives to wars. Scott James PRICE, Matthew John PRICE and Amber Grace PRICE are the fourth cousins four times removed of these 3 brothers from the Mackworth family. From my book “Lest we Forget” A ROLL CALL Book 9 MackworthDMajorRWSurreyattKRRKIA6Jan1900Text Box: They are all related to our families. Let us not forget them as the years pass by. Full details of relationships and grave information is in my book No 9. DICKINS CLAUDE 2DICKINS CLAUDEText Box: Outdoor group portrait of members of, possibly, the 9th Training Battalion at Perham Downs, Wiltshire. England UK. Identified with the black dots, left to right are members of 411 Lance Corporal Frederick Benedict (Ted) Alsop's gun team; No 5 468C Private Claude William DICKINS (later killed in action 17 October 1917); 4000 Bernard Michael (Bern or Barney) Alsop (second from left, standing); No 6 Percy Crane (probably 434 Percy Raymond Crane); No 3 427A Pte Donald Eric (Don) Blackhall (later killed in action 17 October 1917); No 2 Bill Irwin (probably 460 William Irwin). One of his team was missing and all others are unidentified. Brothers Ted and Bern Alsop trained at Salisbury Plains. Ted, a steward of Winchelsea, Victoria, embarked with the 6th Reinforcements, 2nd Machine Gun Company on 20 October 1916. Ted arrived in England and underwent further training before appointment as a lance corporal in April 1917. His brother Bern, a labourer of Winchelsea, embarked with the 10th Reinforcements, 29th Battalion, on 21 October 1916. He transferred to the 4th Division Machine Gun Company in March 1917 joining his brother Ted, and was appointed lance corporal in June. The brothers, now members of the 24th Machine Gun Company arrived in France on 8 September 1917 and on 17 October 1917. Ted was killed in action, along with his comrades Blackhall and Dickins). A letter held by the family sent by Lieutenant Myers, records Ted was in a dugout with two others and all three were killed by a shell and buried just outside a cemetery with a short ceremony presided over by Lt Myers. Post war this grave was not discovered, most likely due to being over-run during ensuing action but all three have their names recorded on the Ypres Menin Gate Memorial and the Australian War Memorial in Canberra Australia. Lest we Forget. The 21st Century and another generation is born: Digby John PRICE is the 2nd cousin 5 times removed to Private Claude William DICKINS 1891-1917. We will remember them. Text Box: 4. Private CLAUDE WILLIAM DICKINS. Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 31. Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL Ieper, West-Vlaanderen Belgium Veronica Maude BATES nee DIBBLE and her brother Robert James Claremont DIBBLE Major Ret. are the second cousins twice removed of Claude William DICKINS. KIA 17 October 1917.

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Text Box: ETERNAL FLAME at the AWM Canberra Text Box: Digby John PRICE with Nanna PRICE [Vicki Louise PRICE nee BATES] and Poppy, Peter Richard PRICE At his first DAWN SERVICE at the DAWESVILLE WAR MEMORIAL — he was so good and fascinated by everything around him. Thank you Scott for organizing all the families to attend with John Malcolm BATES and Veronica Maude BATES nee DIBBLE, The great grand-parents. John is an RSL Member. We will remember them. [Left below] all the family at the Dawn Service Dawesville. All 4 generations. [Right below] Picture of the Dawesville War Memorial as the sun rises over the estuary for the Dawn Service. Lest we Forget. 2015