My father Laurence Michael Barnett was born the Queens Home (later known at the Queen Victoria Hospital), Rose Park in Adelaide, South Australia on March 22nd, 1922. His mother gave her name as Jessica Sheba Barnett, said she was 24 and had been born in London, England. Laurence Barnett's fathers name was shown as not stated on the birth certificate, but he was Major Mervyn James Herbert, a retired Australian Army soldier, veteran of the Gallipoli campaign wounded in action and later served on the Western Front in a France with the 50th Battalion in the battles for Pozieres and Mouquet Farm. At the time of my fathers birth Mervyn was by then an orchardist and vigneron at Moorook on the River Murray.
This blog will have posts about Jessie and her family in London, as well as my families story.
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| Laurence Michael Barnett birth certificate |
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