Canadian War dead in Australia

[Col Tigwell]

Some of you may know that my current project is taking photos of every gravestone, of all aliied war dead who are buried down here.

Thought you might like to know that there are three Canadians buried here.

One each in the following areas.

Woombye which is a small country town just north of Brisbane Queensland.

Perth West Australia War Cemetry

Adelaide River war cemetry in the Northern Territory.

It will take a little while to find names etc and perhaps even longer to get the photos taken, but as it is extreemly likely that your war graves people do not have photos, we can get them put in place.

Regards

Col

[Keith Webb]

Good on you Col. Amazing project indeed.

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Thank you, Col.... it is appreciated.

[Tony Smith]

Originally Posted by Col Tigwell

Thought you might like to know that there are three Canadians buried here.

One each in the following areas.

Woombye: Dermott, Joeseph Green, Signaller, of Halifax NS

Perth: McCutcheon, Jared Vining, Lt Cmdr, of Toronto, Ont.

Adelaide River: Miller, John David, Leiutenant, of Kingston Ont.

It will take a little while to find names etc ......

Regards

Col

Not as long as you thought, Col

[Tony Smith]

And this regarding Lt JD Miller:

http://www.troywoodintarsia.com/1cswg/1cswg5.html

[Col Tigwell]

Thanks guys for both your help and comments. The task in Tasmania alone is a big one, but one I feel strongly on and is well worth the effort.

Like every thing else to do withn the government, there appears to be much slackness in the record keeping, but already I am seeing help coming from the AWG people and these photos are already appearing on the CWG photo site.

Got to admire the efforts of the volunteers in the UK, who travel all over Europe, recording all the allied graves they can locate.

Regards

Col

The guy who is buried at Woombye is a bit of a mystery, as this appears or is it, well off tracks the Canadian guys took.

[Col Tigwell]

Good morning!

Of the three names given to me, Joseph Green Dermott does not appear to come up on the Canadian Roll.

Could be for any of many reasons, and I have asked the Canucks to advise on what they find.

In the mean time Tony you might to check that I have the spelling correct, and perhaps your source of info.

Once I have the spelling 100% correct I should be able to search the records at the cementry, and have the photo taken.

Tony the story source for Miller, sort of hints that the guys in 1999, also performed cermonies at other Canadian graves, of which there is a total of three.

Thanks for your help guys

Col

[Col Tigwell]

In the words of George Frederik Handel " Behold I give to you a mystery"

The Canuck buried at Woombye Cementry in Queensland, is

JOSEPH DERMOTT GREEN DOD 3/3/45

I am obtaining a photo which iI will post here and send to Canadian war graves.

Now this guy does not appear on the Canadian roll, anyone any thoughts.

Thanks

Col

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

He is on our rolls, Col... it's just that their search engine is flawed. Try this link:

http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/s...sualty=2244377

BTW, you can use that link to upload a photo...

[Col Tigwell]

A good steer from our supreme leader. Had never considered that the search engine could be faulty.

I have seen the cementry at Adelaide River, and at Perth, have also been on the web site of the Woombye cementry, and wish to advise that all three are lovely places.

The Canucks involved were interned and the graves taken over and are maintained by the Australian war graves people who do a great job.

The reason that David Millers grave stone is different, is because of the harsh conditions in the NT. Like many other places in Australia, including where I live, the lovely white marble ones do not last, and so as they fail are replaced by the one like on David's grave.

Sad because the white ones stand out in normal cementry's, but in the Actual war cementry's like Perth the have a quite dignity, which in my opinion
has a greater impact on the viewer.

Jiff if you release your snail mail address, I will send you a book, which has all the actual war cementry's in it.

24 hours ago I suspected this would be a long and big job, now except for LT/CMDR McCutcheon there are on the internet photos of all, and I expect that shortly we will have him fixed to.

Must be a story about young Green being in that area, as there are over 20 Australian Army guys buried next to him, he amy have been attached with them. The story will come out in due course.

Regards

Col