May 2010

Contents

• May meeting and contents - page 1Introduces Kim Phillips’s Gallipoli family-history project and the Society’s fiftieth-anniversary luncheon.
• Anniversary luncheon and diary - page 2Sets out the Society’s 2010 meeting dates and luncheon arrangements.
• The Spirits of Gallipoli - page 3Introduces Kim Phillips’s project to document the families of Australian soldiers buried or commemorated at Gallipoli.
• Philip Morton and Menangle church - page 4A Society committee profile accompanies a tour account of St James’s Church and its later chancel.
• Sir Granville Ryrie - page 5Outlines the military and political career of Granville Ryrie; the printed account gives conflicting death years.
• A 1932 Bedford truck - page 6Gary and Dianne Deane recount the truck’s brewery service, farm use and restoration.
• Austermere and Berrima Junction - page 7David Kemmis corrects an earlier railway-place-name account, distinguishing Austermere and Bong Bong from nearby Berrima Junction.
• Diary and supporters - page 8Lists Society meetings and newsletter supporters in 2010.

Issue highlights

• David Kemmis corrects a previously published account of Austermere, Bong Bong and Berrima Junction railway names (p.7).
• The issue introduces Kim Phillips’s Gallipoli family-history project and profiles Society member Philip Morton (pp.3-4).
• A restored 1932 Bedford truck’s working history is described (p.6).

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