Poppy and cross and GDHS teaspoon laid on J.O.E. Noble's headstone At the top of the Gunning Cenotaph on the side facing Yass Street, are the names of Alfred and Joshua Noble. In planning her trip to the European battlefields, their great great niece Sharon Buggy asked Gunning and District Historical Society for an item of remembrance from Gunning. When she visited the Somme Battlefields with her husband in May 2017, she took some GDHS teaspoons featuring Pye Cottage. Joshua Oswald Earl Noble was born at Ourimbah and is buried in Peronne Communal Cemetery. Alfred Lawrence Noble was born at Boulder Hill, Gunning and is buried at Cite Bonjean Military cemetery, Armentieres. Boulder Hill was on the route of the new railway in 1875, only 8 miles north of Gunning. Both young men enlisted in Goulburn and soon after, their father notified his change of address (as next of kin) as Collector. The beautifully kept cemetery at Armentieres Sharon writes: My husband and I abs...
Upper Lachlan Shire, Southern Tablelands, New South Wales