He can be found on the National Archives of Australia website as FAirleigh Edgar etc. -----Original Message----- From: Roger Beckett <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, 21 June 2003 12:28 Subject: Gunner Farleigh >Dear All >I am researching the First AIF in the United Kingdom. I was examining a file >in the Imperial War Museum containing the papers of a Reverend Hayward who >was Chaplain at the United Army Board Hut at Sutton Veney from 1915 to 1919. >A good deal of his correspondence refers to Australian troops and I came >across a letter written to him by the mother of a serving soldier. You can >delve through loads of documents and then you come across something so >poignant that it brings in the reality of the what people went through. > >I reproduce the letter below if you are interested. I couldn't resist >looking for Gunner Edgar Farleigh in the AWM Nominal Roll to see if he did >get home safely but he wasn't there. His brother Victor returned to >Australia with a Military medal. Is the Nominal Roll complete or might Edgar >be found somewhere else? > >From Mrs E. W. C. Farleigh, Brasted, 131 Union St, Gregory Terrace, Brisbane >11 August 1918 > >Reverend Sir, >Excuse the liberty I am taking in writing to you for information respecting >Gunner Edgar Farleigh No. 1245 49th Battery AIF. > >Since my boys have gone to the 'Front' I have written them each Sabbath >Evening. Edgar had his eighteenth birthday on board his ship going to the >'Front' and will be twenty-one years of age on 23rd of September next. > >I have not heard from him for months and cannot imagine what has occurred to >prevent him writing as I have received no Official Information and as his >letters are addressed to you I thought, as I feel so anxious about him that >you might kindly make enquiries and let me know why he has not written. His >brother Victor has been gassed and I had the usual Official Information and >have had a note from him in hospital. > >Edgar was such a good thoughtful boy to me always, afraid to give me any >anxiety and writing cheerful letters home even when wounded that I feel sure >something has happened that he cannot write. Why did his mate not write? > > >==== AUS-MILITARY Mailing List ==== >Please support RootsWeb who make this list possible >http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html >