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Retired at last: Thanks for catching the date of this photo. We will add it to the image description.

Agence Meurisse photo at Gallica site is another view of this funeral cortege, taken a little bit earlier. It seems Gallica either does not have all of its Meurisse photos digitized, or that LOC has some Meurisse photos in its collection that the Bibliotheque Nationale de France does not. (Bain's negative has Meurisse catalog number at upper right) caption; Enterrement de soldats anglais à Versailles gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90419017

Archdeacon Edward Osborn The tower of St Andrew`s Church commemorates Archbishop Edward Castell Osborn who worked in the Diocese for over 48 years. The memorial tablet was unveiled in the tower on the 24th April 1927. Archdeacon Osborn was ordained Deacon and Priest by the Archbishop of Brisbane in 1878 and served his first curacy at Warwick from 1878 to 1881. He also ministered at Roma and Gympie. He had a record of 30 years continuous service at St Andrew's Lutwyche. The proposed memorial to the late Archdeacon Osborn which is to take the form of a tower to be erected at the new church in his old parish, St Andrew's, Lutwyche was considered at a meeting of the Diocesan Council held on Thursday. The council decided to throw in its lot with the St Andrew's Memorial project, and heartily commended it to the church people of the diocese. This means that the memorial will be a diocesan one. The Brisbane Courier (Qld.), 12 April 1926. At St. Andrew's Church of England, Lutwyche, at 7.30 pm. next Sunday, Dean Batty will unveil a tablet to be placed on the church tower, which was built by parishioners of Lutwyche and friends, at a cost oí £800, as a memorial to the late Archdeacon Osborn, who was rector of the church for over 20 years. The Brisbane Courier (Qld.), 21 April 1927. Source: monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/people/religion/display/9...

John Hislop along with his brother James were prize-winning furniture manufacturers and upholsterers with premises in Queen Street. They also conducted funerals together from the 1870s. This partnership was dissolved in 1889 with the funeral and furniture businesses being separated with the bulk of the funerary business being conducted from Peel Street, South Brisbane. John Hislop and Sons established another branch at 544 Queen Street in 1912 where he and his three sons, daughter, and son-in-law conducted business until the 1950s when the Queen Street traffic forced them to consolidate the business at Peel Street. John Hislop died on 15 July 1918 aged 74 after a long and painful illness. His funeral left the same day from his residence Norman Villa at Norman Park. The funeral was conducted by Cannon and Crips. Source: www.fotc.org.au/subset/undertakers_underground.pdf