tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65529199479500423.post1836635034243390811..comments2024-02-02T00:36:31.232-08:00Comments on The Road to War and Back: Blackboy Hill is CallingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65529199479500423.post-72658059317532844562015-10-23T04:46:07.483-07:002015-10-23T04:46:07.483-07:00I love your blog. I have just discovered it by sea...I love your blog. I have just discovered it by searching for "Ballad of the Anzacs" by Winifred May (sister of Henry Frank May who lost a leg on the Western Front during WW1). I found his story while researching my great-grandma Lizzie Basford. In 1920 she was an honorary member and only female member of the Returned Maimed and Limbless Men’s Association of W.A. Lizzie Basford lost a hand while doing war work in England some time between 10/11/1916 and 21/11/1919. Henry (Harry) May (11th battn) was the secretary then president of the association. In 1953 he was arrested for being drunk in a public place. Thankfully the judge had some compassion & sent him to hospital, not gaol. Thank you for this blog! Judith HarrisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65529199479500423.post-81118481743255053272015-04-21T21:16:10.134-07:002015-04-21T21:16:10.134-07:00Having just found this website, I have printed it ...Having just found this website, I have printed it off to read at leisure. Having had family (from both sides) train and Blackboy Hill, and having had one board the HMAT Ascanius, Im looking forward to a good read. thank you.Cheryl Greennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65529199479500423.post-83037282107177024842014-11-11T12:55:56.970-08:002014-11-11T12:55:56.970-08:00James Alexander Gordon enlisted at Blackboy Hill W...James Alexander Gordon enlisted at Blackboy Hill WA on 4th August 1915. He was aged 19 years and was born at Mount Pleasant in South Australia (hence my interest). He left on the Benalla on 1 November 1915 and was killed in Action 3 October 1918. Buried Bellicourt British Cemetery (Plot II, Row C, Grave No. 6), France<br />Paula Bartschhttp://www.mountpleasant.sa.aunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65529199479500423.post-1472945152758099972014-04-21T20:46:28.012-07:002014-04-21T20:46:28.012-07:00This is wonderful Claire, I love the merging of pi...This is wonderful Claire, I love the merging of pictures, poetry and letters. It is beautiful and insightful. Note we at KSP Writers' Centre are putting together a book on Blackboy Hill for the Anzac Centenary 2015 - if you'd like to be involved or are interested please visit http://blackboyhill.blogspot.com.au/ We'd love to hear from you.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02048060311775606870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65529199479500423.post-42285561855783266252013-08-28T05:38:18.261-07:002013-08-28T05:38:18.261-07:00Love your tone in this Claire. It makes it all the...Love your tone in this Claire. It makes it all the more heart wrenching somehow.<br />Larrikin! There's another new word for me. Biff, too.<br />I'm glad the memory of Seccombe can live on. Was just rereading Tey's Daughter of Time and she mentions how her MC Grant, in reading history, was unable to feel empathy with the nameless faces of history - but as soon as there's a name and an individual story, a time period and action becomes all too real.<br />(If Frank was in the Boer War, didn't he marry kind of late in life? Even that little facet is interesting.)<br />I'd like to read Facey's autobiography.<br />I didn't know you had a Gallipoli pine tree there! Hope it's got cicadas too [bg]Deniz Bevanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17134553551048836979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65529199479500423.post-30528106184885131782013-08-23T19:14:48.348-07:002013-08-23T19:14:48.348-07:00Thanks Zan Marie and Sandra! Glad you enjoyed :)Thanks Zan Marie and Sandra! Glad you enjoyed :)Claire Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15286952159573145712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65529199479500423.post-21762561873931663622013-08-23T14:39:09.013-07:002013-08-23T14:39:09.013-07:00Congratulations Claire ... excellent research and ...Congratulations Claire ... excellent research and wonderful reading :)<br /><br />Sandra PlayleAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65529199479500423.post-37399434481872725612013-08-22T08:59:12.209-07:002013-08-22T08:59:12.209-07:00Perfect, Claire! This is so deep with detail that ...Perfect, Claire! This is so deep with detail that takes the reader into the reality. Thank you again. Zan Mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13403563510118660546noreply@blogger.com