The Week 21 theme is "Military." Memorial Day is coming up in the US, so this makes a perfect time to write about someone in the family tree who served in the military. Another way to approach this would be to write about someone who didn't serve (but should have) or how a war affected an ancestor's life.
As I am in Australia I am choosing to post this on the Anniversary of one of my Ancestors.
Private Peter Brandt is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial, along with 54,000 others with no known grave.[1]
Private Peter Brandt is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial, along with 54,000 others with no known grave.[1]
Somewhere on the fields in Belgium, Peter and his fellow soldiers are together, as they fought!
Peter is my Great Uncle who fought in World War 1.
He was “killed in action” on the 10th June 1917.[2]
He was “killed in action” on the 10th June 1917.[2]
I have written about Peter elsewhere in this blog (Utas Essays). So this post will be a pictorial, in memory of his sacrifice.
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| Memorial at AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL, CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA. |
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| MEMORIAL AT MENIN GATE |
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| ENTRANCE TO MENIN GATE |
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1 Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Cemetery Details-Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery Accessed 20 March 2017
2 Service Record of Peter Brandt, B2455, p. 12, National Archives of Australia
1 Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Cemetery Details-Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery Accessed 20 March 2017
2 Service Record of Peter Brandt, B2455, p. 12, National Archives of Australia
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