OLD WORLD ... NEW WORLD
From a picnic at La Perouse to the Western Front
By Tony Matchett
MoshPit Publishing Softcover 210 Pages 2014
An English and Australian cultural and social history of the
Chapman, Ongley, Kipling and Matchett families 1880 – 2008
Inscribed by the author to title page - see photo
Like millions of others in Europe, Tony Matchett’s one
Australian and three British grandparents were to have their lives changed
dramatically by the brutality and upheaval of the Great War, The sole Aussie
returned to Sydney in 1919 with his new English wife on the last ‘War Bride’
ship to depart for Australia. The remaining two grandparents moved to Australia
some years later. All made contributions to Australian society and after WWII
the families were linked by marriage.
Old World…New World
provides backgrounds to formative years in northern and southern England and in
Redfern, Sydney, their experiences during four years of world war, and their
familial relationships and tragedies from the 1920s to Sara’s death in 1977.
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