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TBS&E Number 65, April and May 2015 1 Now in Century Gothic! Produced by Garry Dalrymple as a contribution to ANZAPA mailing No. 286, of the Where’s my Pension, do I really have to wait till #67? Australian and NZ Amateur Press Association. Postal Address: 1 Eulabah Avenue, EARLWOOD NSW 2206 Home phone (Best after 7 pm) 02 9718-5827 Email; [email protected] INDEX to this issue Page 1 – Index. Page 2 – Editorial Pages 2 to 5 - A life seen through TROVE, William Frew Dalrymple, Irish- Australian Light Horseman, AIF. Pages 6 & 7 – Earlwood Stamp Club meeting of May 6, 2015, Daren Jones and NSW Numerical Cancellations Pages 8 to 12 – The Sydney City Skywatchers’ meeting of April 13, Kerrie Dougherty; The New Solar System, 55 years of Space Flight. Pages 12 to 22. Sydney Science Fiction Discussion meetings, April and May, 2015. P. 12 & 13 - The Infinitas / Mars Hill Café SF&F Book Review meetings April 16; The Free, by Brian Ruckley ( P. 13 to 16. May 21; An appreciation of the life and works of Sir Terry Pratchett. Books discussed at Concord Library SF&F Book Group meetings; P. 17 & 18. ‘Wool’ by Hugh Howley. P. 18 & 19. ‘Rudyard Kipling’s SF’ Sydney Futurian SF&F meetings P. 19 to 23. Topic; Cannibalism and other Strange Recipes in SF Stories. 1 TBS&E Number 65, April and May 2015 2 P. 23 to 28. Topic; Genre Transvestism, to do during the 1980s with Parsons SF & Horror stories that start as one Anderson and Co. then switch The point of this is – I’ve now got a fair bit to do to catch up, given that I let the ball slip Pages 28 to 31. Garry’s Book Reviews while running for Parliament and all that. P. 28. ‘Genesis’ by Poul Anderson In this issue you will see my ANZAC day P. 28 & 29. ‘Lincoln the Unknown’, effort, research on TROVE. There are a by Dale Carnegie few other relatives and others that I have P. 29 & 30. ‘We’ by on the back burners, hopefully I can put by Yevgeny Zamyatin out booklets on each, but the William Frew Page 30 & 31. Garry’s 2014 reading Dalrymple one is a Weekend Wonder, that I made up after stumbling across Page 32. Traveller’s Tales and Basenjis references to him, after the discovery of Tail Piece some of his things that my late father had stored above the rafters (NB Australian homes of the older type rarely have a sealed off attic area, above the rafters are 70 years of dust that has fallen through the gaps between the terracotta roof tiles – i.e. it is Nasty up there! Garry P Dalrymple May 18, 2015 A life seen through TROVE, William Frew Dalrymple, Irish-Australian Light Horseman, A.I.F., May going on June – a view on my current and W.W. 1 Veteran. stage of life? Introduction Without day to day employment, managing I never met my Paternal Grandfather what I’ve got, and Mother’s financial affairs William Frew Dalrymple, like the frosts of is currently a big deal. Have I organised winter, he was long gone before I was born things for myself and Mother to best in January 1961. The effort to research this advantage? For most wage earning article is the closest I am likely to come to Australians tax time is a case of let things meeting him, and the wording and tone of slide for ten months of the year, throw your these articles tend to reveal more of those bits of paper together and pass them to the times than offering authentic glimpses of accountant to put in to the Tax department the man, so I, and you the reader can only on time and then hopefully (and gratefully) see him, ‘as through a mirror darkly.’ bank the refund that your tax agent’s As you will read, he died well before I was knowledge of arcane deductions and born. He died before my Mother first met allowables will hopefully result in. my Father, and a decade before my older In my and my Mother’s case, as our income Brother (now deceased) was born. If truth is exclusively ‘other than wages’ and group be told, I was uncertain even of the date certificates etc., I really need to know what and circumstances of his death. my income / tax situation is before I pass it on to an accountant, as the outcome He was an absence rather than a (Refund or amount owing) can often be presence in my life at 124 Bexley Road, as affected by doing end of year balancing my Grandmother (Henrietta but known to things. In effect I have to maintain business all as Daisy) a Widow all through my early like records, accounting type stuff like I used childhood, died before I was 12, robbing 2 TBS&E Number 65, April and May 2015 3 me of even of the prospect of second It is very likely that more details will hand, word-of-mouth stories about what sort emerge on TROVE from time to time, as of a man he was. About all that I knew additional papers are added to TROVE for certain was that he had come from from time to time. I believe that the two Ireland, was a Mason, settled in Griffith prior Dalrymple brothers, Samuel Rupert and to WW1, went off to war as a Light Horse William Frew, also spent some years in man, served on the Western Front, returned Queensland, Jackarooing etc. prior to to Griffith, raised a family and worked for the settling in Griffith, so, as additional Rural Murrumbigee Irrigation Authority (M.I.A.) until Queensland or Port of Entry Newspapers retiring to Sydney, where he died. are added to TROVE, additional aspects of my grandfather’s pre-Griffith life may The following are TROVE newspaper emerge. references. TROVE is an archive of digitally scanned Australian Newspapers. These Garry P. Dalrymple, May 7, 2015. references show light on some aspects of the life of my Grandfather. A life seen through TROVE, I have added to them some details that I did know. These articles hint at scenes William Frew Dalrymple, an Irish- from his my Grandfather’s life that I was not Australian Light Horseman, A.I.F. entirely unaware of. They result from and W.W. 1 Veteran. looking up articles that have been indexed under “W. F. Dalrymple” on TROVE. 1916 to 1954, Generally In this Gallipoli Centenary year of In reviewing the Seventeen newspaper celebrations to the point of ‘ANZAC references I have been able to find exhaustion’? I offer you the reader my through TROVE, it suggests to me that there research as what I hope is a more a may be more articles which refer to my personal, meaningful and authentic act of Grand Father’s life which occur in respect and commemoration of the lives of newspapers but which may not be that past generation of Australians. indexed to ‘W. F. Dalrymple’. There may be references indexed under ‘Dal’, his nick This account is I hope. To be the first of name, lost amid ‘W. Dalrymple’, or simply several. I plan to commemorate Sister not indexed when his name is a grain of Marion Dalrymple (not a direct relative as sand in a beach of an article. A far as I know), my Great Uncle, Captain particular complicating factor is that Herbert W. J. Rhead and my Grandfather, although Dalrymple is an uncommon Frank Rhead with similar articles. name (it occurs once every 25,000 names on the Australian Electoral roll) “William” is What I disclose here is however only a facet both a common given name as well as of my Grandfather’s life. More detail of being a family name among my branch of my Grandfather’s life may be found in the the forest of Australian Dalrymple families. Griffith Pioneers book, in the form of an However, almost all of the detail disclosed article contributed by my late Father, J. T. F. by these seventeen newspaper references Dalrymple. This book also includes a similar are details that have not come down to account of the life in Griffith of my Maternal me through family tradition, and hence are Grandfather, Frank Rhead (of Joshua and valued by me as new insights. Rhead, The Tyre Hospital Ltd etc.) contributed by my Uncle (Geoffrey Rhead). 1916 to 1917, the War. The account, revealed by TROVE articles A fuller picture of part of both Grandfather’s indexed to recognizable variations of my life would of course include the detail grandfather’s life, of items indexed to “W. disclosed by their A.I.F. service records, but F. Dalrymple” starts in January and that is a tale and a task for another day. February 1916 with two references to his 3 TBS&E Number 65, April and May 2015 4 enlistment, place of military training and and bask in the glory of his great mentioning his prior employment (1. And 2.) achievement, before I have to reveal that As an employee of the Irrigation Trust, a for most years, for this category at the public institution, his name must have show, there were only one or two entrants occurred in earlier newspaper in this competition. correspondence? In 1924 (10.) we even get to learn the The next mention, in August 1916, (3.) states name of William’s prize winning stallion – that he is still in camp outside Sydney, but ‘Direct Style’ – possibly the one horse that having attained the rank of Sergeant, is William kept, possibly the one horse willing to renounce this promotion in order to entered in succeeding years? I will hasten his deployment overseas.