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www.flickr.com/photos/imperialwarmuseum/7921756518/in/set... His brother, mentioned above.

The National Archive of Australia has his digitised service record here: recordsearch.naa.gov.au/NameSearch/Interface/ItemsListing... THORN Reginald Samuel Service Number - 3621 Place of Birth - Cavanagh SA Place of Enlistment - Adelaide SA Next of Kin - (Mother) THORN Mary Ann The Australia Birth Index on Ancestry states Name:Reginald Samuel Thorn Birth Date:24 Aug 1888 Father's Name:John Samuel Thorn Mother's name:Mary Ann Bishop Birth Place:Thornton Registration Place:Frome, South Australia

Help piece together the Life Stories of more than 8 million men and women who made a contribution during the First World War at www.livesofthefirstworldwar.org/

Not sure what "Unique" is referring to here? Something to do with the break-of-gauge in the railways?

"Terowie's initial raison d'être was to serve as a transport hub for the late 19th Century pastoral settlement of the north-east of the State. The broad gauge line from the south (via Burra) ended at Terowie. Soon a narrow gauge line continued 20 km north to Peterborough, where lines from Perth, Western Australia, Alice Springs, Broken Hill and later Sydney met. Thus Terowie functioned for decades as the transshipment point at the railway break-of-gauge."

Terowie, S.A. is a fascinating ghost town - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terowie,_South_Australia

beachcomber australia I'm unsure as to what "unique" refers to as well. The titles of the photos in this series come directly from the description given to them in the album. See investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/asp/photosearch/search.as... for the whole album page. -AG

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Where has that tree by Mitchell Young gone to? !!

Slightly earlier photo of the Technical College, judging by the number of insulators on the phone pole (I can't believe I bothered to compare them!) -