Blog Day 53: Friday 15 May 2020

Beautiful autumn day in Bentleigh East today, warm and sunny with coolish mornings.  

Richard has made some comments on yesterday's blog about MMT (Modern Monetary Theory), if anybody wishes to comment please feel free to do so.

I am still doing some research on the boys on the motorbike in the photograph with my grandfather in 1917 but I keep getting distracted. Yesterday, whilst rummaging around in the NAA (National Archives) site I found a file of documents containing letters to and from the Australian army with my great grandmother discussing the payment of her allotment from my grandfather's army pay.  This file contains approximately 40 pages of documents and included birth certificates some of my grandfather's siblings.  At the time she was a widow with at least 6 children on a minimal widow's pension and the allotment from my grandfather's army pay.  I think by the tone of the correspondence they were doing it pretty tough. 

 Also on one of the Army documents it mentions that my grandfather was in "D" company in the 40th battalion.  To date I have been unsuccessful in finding this out.  This information will be of great assistance in trying to determine his location on the battlefield on 28 March 1918 when he was wounded.  

Andrew has just confirmed that zoom trivia is on tonight so that should be some fun.

Despite Victoria maintaining the most stringent lockdown regulations we are still leading the nation with the largest increase in the  number of infections in the last 24 hours.  All the same the numbers are miniscule compared to many other countries and the number of deaths remains stable.

Corona Virus Daily Stats: Day 130

Vic: 1,543 infected (+20 from previous day) - 18 deaths (increase 0)
Aus: 7,022 infected (+32 from previous day) - 98 deaths (increase 0)
Recovered: 6,311
World: 4,440,989

Comments

  1. Roger15 May 2020 at 16:43

    I have also met QB a couple of times when she was Gov and I a lowly CAPT. I agree with Richard.

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