February Photo Collage Festival - Day 10
Ted Conner c 1945 This is my contribution for Day Ten of the February Photo Collage Festival. There is nothing on the back of this photo but I'm guessing it was taken sometime around 1945-1947. And I have no idea where it was taken - somewhere in Australia though. I'm thinking Bankstown airport or maybe in Queensland at the end of the war. It is of my uncle, Edwin Oswald Conner - my father's older brother. I never knew him. He died in October 1947 at the age of just 21. He was named after his father - Edwin Conner - and I suppose his uncle - my grandmother's younger brother Oswald Carrett or Ossie. I blogged about Ted's life on my old blog here . You can read his service record here I particularly like the reference from his old school principal at North Newtown Intermediate High who described him as : "a lad of fine type, of good moral character, of good address and of pleasing personality. He is well balanced and sensible, ...