Relatives Info form

If your Ryde ancestors went to WWI & you would like to print this form to mail in  - rignt-click and select : print picture - otherwise ...

In 1914 the Municipality of Ryde was a semi-rural district in Sydney's north-western suburbs. It is located between the Parramatta and L...

23rd March - radiotherapy over

A little update - dad has just finished 4 weeks of radiotherapy. He is weak and wobbly - speech is bad, balance is bad and strength is bad, ...

German Citizens & the Holocaust

At the start of NAZI power in Germany during the year of 1933 it was unknown of what was set to begin with the mass killings of European Jew...

In Honour of NS Jean Templeman

According to an article by Bruce Ward of the Ottawa Citizen, the night before the hospital ship Llandovery Castle left for England, Nursing ...

WWI Nurse at Vancouver Archives

Recently I was at the Vancouver Archives to do some research for a book I am working on. I was surprised to see, sitting in front of me, a b...

Some Thoughts on the Upcoming Centennial of the First World War

When I first started this blog I was in the throes of researching what was, for myself anyway, a mammoth undertaking – a museum exhibit that...

The Ryde Goes to War Project began in 2011 when members of the Ryde District Historical Society began a project of identifying all men and ...

7th March - Radiotherapy

Dear readers, Just a quick update to let you know that dad is halfway through his second week of a 4 week course of radiotherapy. We suspect...