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Probably George Ray son of Oswald "Ossie" Ray and Selina Pickles. Oswald Ray was the brother of Percival Ray (who was married to Gertrude Mason) and Ethel Ray (my grandmother) who owned the photo.

Service Number - VX122008
Selected pages from the Attestation papers of John Maxwell Bonnell
Date of birth - 25 November 1923
Place of enlistment - Foster, Victoria
Killed in Action 21 April 1943 Papua New Guinea

Illawarra Mercury - 22nd December 1859

Nathaniel Boon, husband of Sarah Wade, identified Fisher's Body.

The Fishers Host website is http://www.fishersghost.com.au/ and on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher's_ghost

Our sacrifice, at home and abroad

Sydney Morning Herald
April 25, 2007
The story was powerful enough: a tale of a mother's love and her son's courage in war. But much more is now known about the family behind Australia's first World War II…

The Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has been presented with a two-volume compendium on his family links to petty criminals, including an English street urchin sentenced to death for fleecing an eight-year-old of her dress and underwear in a toilet.
The…