Comments on: 56th Battalion at Polygon Wood: a unit and a family’s sad loss http://blog.awm.gov.au/awm/2007/08/14/56th-battalion-at-polygon-wood-a-unit-and-a-family%e2%80%99s-sad-loss/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:43:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: rian willmot http://blog.awm.gov.au/awm/2007/08/14/56th-battalion-at-polygon-wood-a-unit-and-a-family%e2%80%99s-sad-loss/#comment-2167 rian willmot Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:45:13 +0000 http://blog.awm.gov.au/awm/?p=337#comment-2167 Hi Jenny You can contact me on rianwillmot@hotmail.com Hi Jenny
You can contact me on rianwillmot@hotmail.com

]]> By: Jenni Yeoman http://blog.awm.gov.au/awm/2007/08/14/56th-battalion-at-polygon-wood-a-unit-and-a-family%e2%80%99s-sad-loss/#comment-2078 Jenni Yeoman Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:59:30 +0000 http://blog.awm.gov.au/awm/?p=337#comment-2078 Another sad chapter of the Single family is that a (?) brother of Gordon Yeoman listed above, was a stoker on HMAS Sydney and lost his life when the Sydney was sunk in 1940. I am interested in tracing the father ,Francis Yeoman ,of these two - does Rian have any details on him as Francis must have married into the Single family? Thanks Jenni Another sad chapter of the Single family is that a (?) brother of Gordon Yeoman listed above, was a stoker on HMAS Sydney and lost his life when the Sydney was sunk in 1940. I am interested in tracing the father ,Francis Yeoman ,of these two - does Rian have any details on him as Francis
must have married into the Single family?

Thanks
Jenni

]]> By: Rian Willmot http://blog.awm.gov.au/awm/2007/08/14/56th-battalion-at-polygon-wood-a-unit-and-a-family%e2%80%99s-sad-loss/#comment-1925 Rian Willmot Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:56:09 +0000 http://blog.awm.gov.au/awm/?p=337#comment-1925 I am A Single descendant and have quite a lot of information about them. so I would be happy to contact Ann if that is possible. Cheers Rian I am A Single descendant and have quite a lot of information about them. so I would be happy to contact Ann if that is possible.
Cheers
Rian

]]> By: Ann http://blog.awm.gov.au/awm/2007/08/14/56th-battalion-at-polygon-wood-a-unit-and-a-family%e2%80%99s-sad-loss/#comment-1758 Ann Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:43:38 +0000 http://blog.awm.gov.au/awm/?p=337#comment-1758 After reading an article by Mark Day in <em>The Weekend Australian </em>a few months back, I learnt that descendants of John Single had lost 33 men in the first world war. I am myself a descendant of this family, but know very little of the history of the family, so I was interested to read this article. I vistited Gallipolli in 1976, completely unaware that I had relatives that had fought there. My family were more of the forget and get on with things people, and the wars were never spoken of. <strong>Editor's response:</strong> Hi Ann. I wrote the above article sometime last year and it has been picked up by a couple of newspapers who have made mention of it in some way or another through short articles. My interest in it has since transformed into a book, being a complete unit history of the 56th Battalion, to whom Captains Raymond Single and Hubert Thompson belonged. There is a separate blog for this project. You can find it <a href="http://halfhundredweights.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Cheers, Craig Tibbitts Curator Official Records Australian War Memorial After reading an article by Mark Day in The Weekend Australian a few months back, I learnt that descendants of John Single had lost 33 men in the first world war. I am myself a descendant of this family, but know very little of the history of the family, so I was interested to read this article.

I vistited Gallipolli in 1976, completely unaware that I had relatives that had fought there. My family were more of the forget and get on with things people, and the wars were never spoken of.

Editor’s response: Hi Ann. I wrote the above article sometime last year and it has been picked up by a couple of newspapers who have made mention of it in some way or another through short articles. My interest in it has since transformed into a book, being a complete unit history of the 56th Battalion, to whom Captains Raymond Single and Hubert Thompson belonged. There is a separate blog for this project. You can find it here.

Cheers,

Craig Tibbitts
Curator Official Records
Australian War Memorial

]]> By: m english http://blog.awm.gov.au/awm/2007/08/14/56th-battalion-at-polygon-wood-a-unit-and-a-family%e2%80%99s-sad-loss/#comment-1757 m english Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:25:50 +0000 http://blog.awm.gov.au/awm/?p=337#comment-1757 <p>Dear Sir When will the history of the 56th battalion be published</p> Editor's response: Hi there, we anticipate the latter half of 2009. There's a new blog about the 56th Battalion project where you can track its progress at http://halfhundredweights.wordpress.com/ Cheers, Craig. Dear Sir When will the history of the 56th battalion be published

Editor’s response: Hi there, we anticipate the latter half of 2009. There’s a new blog about the 56th Battalion project where you can track its progress at http://halfhundredweights.wordpress.com/

Cheers,
Craig.

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