mindful45 Posted 15 November , 2019 Author Share Posted 15 November , 2019 One suggestion may be to contact a paper in NSW - I am thinking of doing this.....well they may be interested, so I shall see what I can do on that side of things. I am on Ancestry so maybe I will be able to contact someone that way too.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david murdoch Posted 15 November , 2019 Share Posted 15 November , 2019 Here are his siblings as per Ancestry family tree. One brother Claude had a son who was killed at the fall of Singapore. The other who died in 1916 does not appear to be war related. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindful45 Posted 17 November , 2019 Author Share Posted 17 November , 2019 Impressive work. I still haven't heard anything back from the Cullingworth History Society. I will give it a few more days and then I shall see if I can find a paper in NSW and contact them......they may be interested, it will give them something different to explore, instead of all those devastating fires. No idea if this will be successful, but trying doesn't hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindful45 Posted 20 November , 2019 Author Share Posted 20 November , 2019 Ok, I have heard back from the CWGC, they are amending their records regarding his middle name, it will no longer read Alexander then...so we have done something positive there. It appears that they exhumed his body, which is not something they normally do, so it was a little unusual, as the cemetery was overgrown and the grave was hard to get access to. Now it seems that they got permission to do so from a surviving relative, so I assume there must be somebody around. I will clarify this, so that we know for sure that there is family who are aware that his grave has been moved and that there is someone still able to remember him. Apparently there was a non disturbance agreement that was reached regarding the grave. I hope you find this of interest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindful45 Posted 21 November , 2019 Author Share Posted 21 November , 2019 Ps the CWGC has said that they were in contact with a family member in 2012..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 21 November , 2019 Share Posted 21 November , 2019 Good work mindful45, The view of the graveyard on Streetview did indeed suggest it was overgrown and it's understandable that the grave could not easily be maintained there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindful45 Posted 22 November , 2019 Author Share Posted 22 November , 2019 Thanks, I am still pondering the merits of contacting a newspaper in NSW - just in case...…..I heard back from Cullingworth, and the history society there was unable to find any family members...….so we know someone was around in 2012....hmmm.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadbrewer Posted 22 November , 2019 Share Posted 22 November , 2019 Have you tried Bradford City Council?....they were very helpful in finding the whereabouts of the grave of my wife's grandfather....I realise you know where the grave is but there might be other information available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindful45 Posted 22 November , 2019 Author Share Posted 22 November , 2019 Interesting suggestion - I hadn't thought of that.....Thanks, I shall give it a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindful45 Posted 29 November , 2019 Author Share Posted 29 November , 2019 Update time - I have contacted the Glenn Innes Examiner, and the Inverell Times in NSW in the hope that they may print an article about Colin with the aim of locating any relatives who may still be out there. These papers are for the areas of Deepwater and Inverell which are (1) where Colin resided with his wife Alice however briefly and where she continued to live once he went overseas and (2) where Colin was born respectively. No idea if I will hear back from Australia or whether the papers will be interested, but I have given it a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holdderby Posted 10 November , 2020 Share Posted 10 November , 2020 Did you ever hear back from the Australian Newspapers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tallpoppy Posted 18 July , 2021 Share Posted 18 July , 2021 I have a small but heart-warming story from my great aunt’s memoirs which I am sure relates to Colin Robinson, although she didn’t recognise him as an Australian. She writes... Later in the war we lived in Cullingworth and I went in Annie Phillips’ shop for something for my mother and there was a Canadian or New Zealand soldier in there wearing his uniform and slouch hat. He said to her “Give this little girl a quarter of sweets” and I got them weighed out. I hardly dared go home, I’d only ever had a ha’porth of sweets or an ounce before, and my mother asked where I’d got them. I’d a right job explaining. so it seems Colin made a big impression on a 13 year old girl who’d remembered him for the rest of her very long life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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