Just did the basic research on Sidney Brealey of Cherry Gardens, a private with 4th Pioneer Battalion who spent over two years on the Western Front. One of the Cherry Gardens Brealey clan, he was brother to Charles Brealey and (probably) cousin to Robert Harold and James Newman Brealey. He enlisted in WA where he was working at the time. More once I get a photo.
The Oarsmen: The Remarkable Story of the Men Who Rowed from the Great War
to Peace
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*Available from libraries and bookstores.*
At the end of the Great War the Department of Defence was faced with the
problem of repatriating tens of thousa...
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