November 13 - November 29, 2015 Vol. 32 - Issue 23 REMEMBRANCE soon as the war was over. Ruby and Myra were very fond of their prospective sister in law and keen for her to join the family in Smalls Road. A boy from Arcadia - France and Belgium 1916 -1917 Bill Trethowan was born at the home of his parents Alf Trethowan Alf and Ruby drove Bill and his young lady to Hornsby where they farewelled Bill Snr and his wife Anna Maria in Smalls Road, Arcadia in 1891. Alf and as he got the train after his final leave before embarkation. On 5th October, 1915 he Anna Maria had married in Falmouth, Cornwall, England in 1877 and sailed on HMAT Warialda from Brisbane. sailed to begin a new life in Australia in October of that year. Alf He served at Poziers on the Somme, at Bulecourt then Mefines came from a long line of shipwrights in the family shipbuilding yard in Ridge in Belgium in 1917 where he was wounded in the right arm. His Falmouth, but once in Sydney he established a ham & beef shop, (a injury was up near the shoulder and the artery was spurting. He was told deli today) in The Rocks area of Sydney, this was sold at a capital “hang on to that young fellow or you’ll bleed to death.” gain and the process was repeated at Burwood and Granville It was a day and a half before they could get him to a casualty before he had enough money to make a down payment on 40 acres station. It was a near death experience. He was taken to England where on the corner of Smalls and Blacks Roads Arcadia in 1885. his nurse was Miss Mable Downs whose father was a pharmacist in St Bill grew up happily attending Arcadia Public School and was Kilda, Melbourne. promised a ten acre portion of the family property to establish a farm. During the long period of recovery Bill fell in love with his nurse. This Bill had three brothers, the eldest Alf Jnr married Ruby Pugsley in was a common occurrence with young men who were wounded far away 1908, Ern married from home. Myra Geddes in 1913. Bill was discharged on the 12th June, 1918 unfit for service and unfit to His sister Daisy never establish his little farm. The young lady he left behind at Arcadia never married. Sandstone married, and little Sidney died aged 4. This is what war did to many young women at that time. Sales Alf Jnr and Ern had already Bill and Mable were married in 1919 their post war life was spent in Melbourne where Buy Direct From the Quarry established their homes and farms on their Bill was limited to office work. They had two children Alan and Beryl. 10 acre portions when Bill enlisted on 3rd They returned to Arcadia for regular family visits right up until 1959. In 1960 Bill and 9652 1783 June 1915. Alf both died during the winter but they had had a very happy last visit only months before. 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