December 27, 1918 What Our Friends Are Doing Mr and Mrs George ABERNETHY received the welcome news this week that their son Private Geo. ABERNETHY was safe in England, after having been a prisoner in Germany for one year and eight months. On Christmas day, his brother Frank, who lives in Polkemmet, while carving the goose, remarked feelingly, "George would enjoy a cut of this." In the afternoon Frank visited his father, who met him with the truly joyful Christmas greeting, "George is in England." Word has been received from the Base Records that Sergeant Frank A. STEPHENS, of the "Wattles," Bringalbert North, is returning to Australia on the "Shropshire", on the 25th September, 1916. While in France last March he contracted trench fever and has been in various English hospitals ever since, the fever having left him with chronic bronchitis and asthma. Daryl Crabtree Gladstone Qld www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/goroke/