Martha Wike was a very proud “Australian by Choice”. Here her daughter Amanda pays tribute to this Shire of Nillumbik local historian and community volunteer who recently passed away. Martha was born in Cairo, Egypt with Greek nationality. In My Mother’s Words; “I arrived at Tullamarine airport, on a Saturday morning with my parents when […]
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World War 1 Casualty : George Thomas Weir (St. Andrews/Queenstown)
Although claiming to be 42 years of age when he enlisted, Weir was actually 46 when he died of wounds on a hospital ship after being evacuated from Gallipoli. He was one of the oldest in our archives to have been killed and left a widow and three children, then living in Coburg. In a […]