2015: Trans Tasman Anzac Day Blog Challenge
Portrait of Private Edward Hinde of Gilston, Queensland, pictured in France, circa 1916 [picture] / Photographer unknown. Picture courtesy of Gold Coast Libraries Picture Gold Coast collection. This image is free of copyright restrictions. Permission is needed to use this image for commercial purposes. It's on again ! Kintalk's Trans Tasman Anzac Day Blog Challenge. This year I have chosen to focus on the Hinde branch of my husband's family. My husband prompted this blog by saying he remembered a photo of a digger on the wall of his grandmother's house when he was growing up. He remembered the man's name was Thomas. I knew it couldn't be Thomas Daw - he was too young for WWI . Dorothy, my husband's grandmother, was a Hinde before she married. When I searched the NAA records for Hindes serving in WWI, I found an Edward and a Thomas. Edward and Thomas would have been Dorothy's first cousins once removed or to put it another w...