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- Pioneers at Peace: The Story of St John’s Cemetery, Gordon by Jill Lyons provides a history of St John’s Church and Cemetery at Gordon, on Sydney’s Upper North Shore. It also provides interesting information about burial customs over the years and gives biographical details of many of thos whose final resting place is St John’s. Accompanying this book is a complete record of all of those buried at St John’s Cemetery Gordon, including photographs of the monuments. The sesquicentenary of the cemetery occured in 2017.
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- The First World War. 2014 — the centenary of the beginning of the Great war. This page details a number of ebooks about ANZAC and the conflict in general.
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- The Dictionary of Australasian Biography (1892)
“From the Inauguration of Responsible Government Down to the Present Time (1855-1892)” - Australian Discovery. The first authenticated landing on Australian soil occurred in 1606. In 2006 Australians celebrated the 400th anniversary of the event. This page covers the period from 1606-1770. Many free ebooks.
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