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Herbert Henry Bartley was a pillar of his community. His friends and family felt ‘it was impossible for him to refuse to lend his assistance to public matters’ and Herb himself stated that ‘he had long been anxious to get into a bigger field for his energies.’ What ‘bigger field’ could there be than the First World War?
Read MoreIf the NSW police had cross-referenced databases in 1867, they might have discovered what happened to convict Patrick Joyce, who disappeared from the convict records around 1839.
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