Edmund Horatio Gardner

(1887-1929)

Eddie enlisted in the AIF in 1916 and was sent to France.
On the Western Front, he was shell gassed and returned to London with bouts of bronchitis. Due to ill health, he was assigned to the Postal Corps but finally discharged in 1918 with defective vision. Eddie died suddenly in September 1929, aged 42 of pneumonia. He is buried amongst a dozen soldiers from the first World War in the Roma cemetery.

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Supplies were strictly rationed during wartime.

When World War II came, Eddie’s widow, Iris (nee Wieneke) was President of the Ladies' Comfort Fund at Northgate, Queensland. Parcels were made for soldiers fighting overseas. Ironically, Iris’s paternal grandparents were German immigrants and their youngest son, Harry Wieneke went to Duntroon Military College and was a Lieutenant in the 9th Battalion during World War I. He arrived in France on 11th November, 1918 (lucky Harry!)

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