2/07/2016    Photo a Day   B is for

I have been in possession of this Bible for most of my life and it tells two stories of my family.My father was in Egypt from almost the beginning of WW 2 and was badly injured in 1941 and sent home but he had bought this Bible for his sister Joan.

On the side front cover he has written To Joan a present from the East 1941

On the inside back cover he has written 19th January 1942 4.15PM

Died St Vincent's Hospital around Midnight.Buried Northern Suburbs Cemetery 31/1/42

Joan was the oldest of the three children  and although she was married did not have any children of her own.She had been hit by a tram in Sydney that day in January so long ago and this is one of three things I have of hers.