Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Known to me as Uncle George, he was married to Marion [born Jessie Maud Green). My parents were immigrants from Europe and with no family of their own, Marion who was working in childcare, took on the role of a caregiver while my parents both worked long hours and several jobs to buy to land and eventually build a home.

Marion and George became the godparents of my younger brother, Bert in 1965. Quite funnily Marion would lavish Bert with extra helpings of food and anything that he might want. We often joked that he was the child they never had.

George and Marion lived in a war service home at Canley Heights,NSW. While I was quite small, I have no recollection of George working. My parents told me he was a cook in the army and I see he reached the rank of Corporal when he retired.

George died in February 2,1973, aged 77. Towards the end of his life he had very poor eyesight and I think he suffered from cancer and passed away in Hugh Jardine House, a palliative care facility, attached to Liverpool Hospital, New South Wales.

There is a Bronze plaque in the grounds of St Barnabas Church, Fairfield, New South Wales. I’m not sure why, but he should have had a notation that he had served during the Second World War and he doesn’t. I’m not sure how to rectify this.