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The Government Architect, James Barnet, pauses his grand schemes, work on the Sydney GPO, court houses, post offices etc. to concentrate on a hot water system for the imbecile asylum in Newcastle !! I think the building is still there as part of the James Fletcher Hospital, much altered - journals.sfu.ca/hneh/index.php/hneh/article/viewFile/55/46 & www.theherald.com.au/story/456679/james-fletcher-hospital... Possibly the extension was to one of these distant buildings on Watt Street seen in this c.1882 photo -

Good newspaper article describing the place in vivid detail, and an insight into victorian attitudes to such places - SMH 27/8/1887 p.8 - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/13661080

A Ralph Snowball photo of the asylum, also dated 1888 (22/11/1888) And research on the place - governmenthousebarracks1804.wordpress.com/

"There were all types of faces and all types of children, but planted on the face of each was the hopeless seal of insanity -insanity of a quiet and idiotic character, though there were some few exceptions. In one or two cases the girls looked intelligent for a few moments, and then their faces again settled to a dull, stolid level of expressionless imbecility." They didn't pull any punches in them days. Newcastle. Asylum for Imbeciles and Idiots. trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13661080

"Rainbow Division The 42nd came to be known as the "Rainbow Division". When the United States declared war on Germany in 1917, it federalized National Guard divisions to quickly build up an Army. In addition, Douglas MacArthur, then a major, suggested to William A. Mann, the head of the Militia Bureau, that he form another division from the non-divisional units of several states. Secretary of War Newton D. Baker approved the proposal, and recalled Douglas MacArthur saying that such an organization would "stretch over the whole country like a rainbow." The division was created using units from 26 states and the District of Columbia. The name stuck, and MacArthur was promoted to colonel as the division chief of staff. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_Infantry_Division_(United_States)

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The New-York tribune., May 02, 1919, Page 8 printed this photo with the caption: "Major General C. A. F. Flagler, commanding the 42d (Rainbow) Division in Germany, is in the centre of the front row. At his left is Lieutenant Colonel Stanley M. Rambaugh and at his right Colonel William N. Hughes, jr. Rear, left to right, are Captain James M. Boyd, Major R. H. Bertram, Major Robert J. Gill and Lieutenant H. W. Fletcher. The photograph was taken at Division Headquarters in Ahrweiler." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1919-05-02/ed-...

Clement Alexander Finley Flagler (1867-1922), Major General, United States Army www.arlingtoncemetery.net/caflagler.htm en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Flagler

Caption from Catalogue of official A.E.F. photographs (1919) provides some different/additional info: "46321. Officers living at commanding general's quarters, Forty-second Division, at Ahrweiler, Germany. Left to right, first row : Col. William N. Hughes, jr. ; Maj. Gen. C. A. F. Flagler, commanding Forty-second Division : Lieut. Col. Stanley M. Rambough. Second row : Capt. James M. Boyd Maj. R. H. Bertram, Maj. Robert J. Gill, Lieut. H. W. Fletcher. Ahrweiler, Germany. January 8, 1919" archive.org/stream/cu31924027944598#page/n507/mode/2up

"Hey Badger, lets turn our hats sideways and see what the men say".

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