Lot 3033

Description

Wartime letters, WWI, a series of love letters (34) between Harold Peatfield and Frieda Belschener during period c1917-21, noted two in Baptist and Congregational Churches, Field Service, On Active Service With The A.I.F. envelopes and one of these on this organisation's writing paper, both written by Harold at 10th A.A.S.C. military camp at Liverpool, in October and November 1917; WWII, a b&w photographic card featuring Lieutenant Esmond Gilhooley, Royal Australian Artillery, KIA at Milne Bay, New Guinea, August 28th 1942, also letters (not from Esmond) written to Jim Gilhooley (6 + 2 empty addressed envelopes), one of these dated 27 August 1945 from Municipality of Burwood relating to naming details for a War Memorial, and Forest Gilhooley (4 + 2 empty addressed envelopes). Some with light foxing but mostly fine - very fine. (48)

Elfreda (Frieda) Jeannetta Belschener, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Johann Gottfried Belschener (originally from Germany), Dalley Street, Kogarah, married Harold Gray Peatfield, second son of Mr and Mrs F.R.Peatfield of Kogarah, at the Congregational Church, Kogarah on 7 October 1922, the ceremony performed by Rev W.Touchell. Although Harold was at a military camp in 1917, there is no record of him serving in the AIF.



NX56439 Lt George Joseph Esmond Gilhooley, 2/5 Fld Regt, born 11May1916 at Hunter's Hill, NSW; Enl.05Jul1940 at Paddington, Sydney, NSW; KIA 28Aug1942.