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From Cate Walker and Paul Morrissey at Nundah Cemetery

A few weeks ago I put up a a post about the final resting place of Lieutenant-Colonel George Andrew Ferguson DSO VD 26th Battalion AIF which is located in the Nundah Historic Cemetery in Brisbane. My expert genealogy friend Bobby Nicholas tracked down some descendants and I have been in communication with his grandson, Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Ferguson (RETD). Since then Peter and his family along with the Brisbane City Council have given us permission to restore his granite headstone to its former glory. Peter is also organising an official military plaque via the Office of Australian War Graves.

The granite boulders that surround his grave have been moved at some time in the past and need to be returned to their rightful place and secured. If anyone can assist us with the granite boulders we would be very grateful. We will be restoring the lettering to this civilian granite memorial at 1pm tomorrow (Saturday) and we are happy to teach anyone interested how we go about it. The grave of Lieutenant-Colonel George Andrew Ferguson is located at the far end of the cemetery as you enter the gates at 86 Hedley Ave Nundah.
Lest We Forget 🌺

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/22156072
“A PUBLIC LOSS.
The State of Queensland has lost heavily by the death of Colonel George A. Ferguson, D.S.O., V.D., and director of the Queensland State Children's Department. He was in every way a good citizen and a most valuable public servant. At the Brisbane Grammar School he was a lieutenant of cadets; much later he was to become a defender of Australia, forming the 26th Battalion of the A.I.F., and doing such good work at Gallipoli, in the defence of Egypt, and in France as to win for himself the Distinguished Service Order. In the fighting on the Somme he was so severely wounded that his life was despaired of. When he returned to Queensland he resumed his work as a public servant. It would be impossible to imagine a man better fitted for his job than Colonel Ferguson was fitted for the directorship of the State Children's Department. He had grasped the fact that the Legislature desired the control of State children to be something more than a rigidity and mere perfunctoriness. The task of looking after the children committed to the care of the State was compatible with Colonel Ferguson's own fine feelings. He was an authority on the law governing his own department, but those who knew him can say quite confidently that if the control of State children had merely been left to him without legislation it would still have been a humane and enlightened control of which the whole community could be proud. He administered the Act in such a way that the result must be that nearly all the children committed to his care will grow up to be useful citizens. The work was done in a quiet way, without fuss, without advertisement, and in that work Colonel Ferguson erected a splendid monument to himself.”