April 2010

Contents

• Early Medway meeting - page 1Introduces Jim Galloway’s talk on Medway and the issue’s accounts of two First World War veterans.
• Jim Galloway’s Medway recollections - page 2Introduces Galloway’s family history and coal-mining recollections. The locomotive caption’s junction name was corrected in the next issue.
• Bruce Moore and Walter Geoffrey Harris - page 3Profiles a Society committee member and begins a service account of Bowral resident Walter Geoffrey Harris.
• Walter Harris and Frederick Aarons - page 4Reprints Harris’s obituary and introduces the service history of Frederick Oswald Aarons.
• Frederick Aarons - page 5Follows Aarons’s service and later life in Exeter; a reprinted newspaper account contains conflicting biographical details.
• Aarons’s Gallipoli recollections - page 6Continues a newspaper interview about Gallipoli, injury and later military service.
• Medway coal mines and Oldbury - page 7A reprinted mining history describes colliery transport and pit ponies; its junction-name statement was corrected in issue 417.
• Diary and supporters - page 8Lists Society events and newsletter supporters in 2010.

Issue highlights

• Jim Galloway introduces his recollections of Medway, and a reprinted article traces the coal mines and transport to New Berrima (pp.2, 7).
• The issue recounts the lives and wartime experiences of Walter Geoffrey Harris and Frederick Oswald Aarons (pp.3-6).
• The article’s railway junction naming was corrected in the following issue (p.7; issue 417 p.7).

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