Date of birth: 8 March 1906 Place of birth: Vasiliki, island of Lefkas Arrived in Australia: 17 November 1926 Occupation: Shopowner Our history in Australia goes a long way back. Some years after my mother’s death, my father decided to come to Australia. He arrived in 1923. He was in his mid-forties. I came aboard […]
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Harry Pantelis (b. 1904, Kalimnos, Greece)
Date of birth: 27 July 1904 Place of birth: Island of Kalimnos, Aegean Islands Arrived in Australia: 16 October 1924 Occupation: Shopkeeper, Cook. There were three brothers in my family in Greece. One of my brothers, who was in France during the war, was wounded and died. Later, in 1920, my other brother came to […]