The Baldock Family · Alfred & Frances Baldock
Harold Roy Baldock 1897–1917
The third of William Stanley and Jessie Baldock’s nine children — a photo-engraver who added two years to his age to enlist, and was killed on a fatigue party at Bullecourt the following year. What survives instead of a grave is his mother’s own four-year correspondence, asking a distant government office what had become of her son.
Read their storyErnest Francis Healey 1885–1928
A painter and letterer who enlisted in 1914 and survived the war; his fuller story is told above.[91][101]
Read their storyReginald Alfred Charles Healey 1890–1916
Married Irene Kennedy in 1911 and was killed at Fromelles in 1916; his fuller story is told above.[90][93]
Read their storyThe Cadden Family · William & Christina Cadden
William Mitchell Cadden 1858–1924
A Sydney hotel-keeper who held at least nine licences across three decades and survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake by stepping out for an early walk — then enlisted for Home Service in 1916 swearing he was single, and died in Dublin in 1924 leaving an estate his previously unknown daughter helped settle.
Read their storyFrank Cadden 1860–1920
Goldfields storekeeper, first postmaster of Mount Poole and a King Street publican — who in his late fifties shaved exactly ten years off his age to serve in the First World War.
Read their storyJohn Mitchell Cadden 1862–1954
Glen Innes tinsmith, digger beside Paddy Hannan, mounted constable in the Kimberley and for a quarter of a century a Perth hansom-cab man — who at fifty-four took six years off his age to join the AIF’s tunnellers.
Read their storyWilliam Thomas Cadden 1887–1968
The eldest son, a government clerk who served four years with the AIF’s hospitals and sanitary sections, nearly died of pneumonia in a London hospital run by women doctors, put on a captain’s three pips in the next war — and ended a twenty-five-year marriage in a divorce court the Perth papers could not resist.
Read their storyJohn James ‘Jack’ Cadden 1889–1918
Bunbury’s clerk of courts became a mounted military policeman and then traffic control officer of the 1st Australian Division — and, after three years abroad without a wound, died of influenza on leave in London eleven days before the Armistice. His family remembered him as lost ‘in France’.
Read their storyThe Poole Family · William & Frances Poole
William Francis Poole 1882–
A tram conductor turned butcher who enlisted for the war in 1916, was divorced by his wife for adultery in 1921, and had resettled in Queensland by old age — almost certainly the brother who wrote, in 1954, to explain Joel John’s wartime disappearance.
Read their storyJoel John Poole 1886–
A Sydney tram conductor who vanished in 1913 — and was almost certainly found again, seventy years later, hiding in plain sight in the AIF's own records under the name "John Smith."
Read their storyFrederick Thornley Poole 1892–1970
Enlisted twice within a year of the war breaking out — first in the seizure of German New Guinea, then in the AIF proper — and left Pozières in 1916 having lost his left eye; nearly three years of reconstructive treatment, including at the pioneering Queen’s Hospital, Sidcup, preceded a quiet return to a market garden at Engadine, south of Sydney.
Read their storyThomas Charles Poole c.1897–1971
The youngest of the eleven — a Gallipoli and Western Front veteran, identified as theirs only decades later by his own death notice naming his brother and sister by name.
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