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Just prior to his untimely death in August 1987, Jim Long penned his memoirs of his overseas War service in the Middle East in World War II. The 33,700-word story sees an Australian working-class shoe store worker from Bendigo, volunteer for overseas military service. We hope to add photos to this work. CLICK HERE: http://long.com.au/wordpress/?page_id=302
Days after Jim Long’s death in August 1987, he was sent a letter by Major Everard Baillieu, CBE, a veteran of Tobruk and El Alamein. Major Baillieu, 1912-2002, of South Yarra, was the author of Both Sides of the Hill, a booklet published by the 2/24th Battalion Association. The publication examined the capture of Company
William James Tunzi was born on November 23, 1916, to George Richard Tunzi (born 1883) and Winifred Ann Gleeson (died 1965). Bill Tunzi was born in Bendigo (Vic.). His siblings were: • Phillip Lorenzo Tunzi (1905-1905); • George Richard Tunzi (1906-1959), who married Ivy Mavis Bourke (1913-1989); • Agnes Mary Tunzi (born 1908), who married George Alexander McIlwain; • Joseph Martin Tunzi
My uncle, Albert John ‘Jack’ Lawrence, was born on April 2, 1916. He died on November 28, 2005. The Order of Service at the celebration of his life, held on Thursday, December 1, 2005, at Le Pine Chapel, Ivanhoe, included this tribute: Jack was born on April 2, 1916, to Albert Fletcher (Bert) and Honora
My maternal grandfather was Albert Fletcher Lawrence. Aunt Joy Wood penned these notes in 1995: My Dad was born on September 20, 1892, at 5 Willow Walk, Bermondsey. He was the second son of Joseph and Sarah Jane (nee Fletcher) Lawrence. Bermondsey was in the registration district of St Olave, Southwark, in the sub-district of Saint
Joseph (Joe) Lawrence was the father of my maternal grandfather, Albert (Bert) Fletcher Lawrence. My late aunt, Joy Wood, penned this story in 1992, about Joseph Lawrence: Joseph (Joe) was my Grandfather. My memories of him are of a well-built man, semi-bald, but with pale gold-coloured hair and moustache. He was very much the gentleman, always
James Long’s Ballarat factory became known first as the ‘Victoria’, but later as the Sunshine Biscuit Co., when his son Thomas turned it into a public company. Other interests bought out William’s share, and the factory was operated for a time by Arnott Spilliers. It was rebuilt in the 1920s following a fire which gutted
A 1904 publication commented on “J. Long & Company Proprietary Limited, Factory, Ballarat East”. “The manufacture of confectionery has been brought to a fine art, and there are few establishments of the kind in the Commonwealth where a wider variety and greater excellence of candied lollies and dainty biscuits come into being than that of
By 1874 James Long was a well-known identity in Ballarat East, and through his interest in the community he was approached to stand for local government, to which he was elected. The following year he became Mayor, serving two more terms in 1877-78 and 1878-79. It is recorded that while officiating: “The business of the Council
James Long started making ginger bread in the shapes of animals, using confectionery pastes or currants for eyes. His diversification into other confectionery lines found a readysale. It grew to such an extent that in 1864, James Long purchased a delicensed hotel, the Golden Gate, situated on the eastern corner of East and Victoria Streets,
