Oswald Thomas Christie [2407] ¹

   FamilySearch ID: L4BP-K5Y.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Registration: Birth, 1892, Crookwell District, New South Wales. ³ 11972/1892
CHRISTIE, OSWALD T
WILLIAM J
ANNIE J
CROOKWELL

• Military Service, 1916 Oct 20 to 1917 Aug 9. ⁴ Enlisted: 30 Oct 1916
Born: Crookwell
Occupation: Stone Mason
Unmarried.
Cause of death: Malignant Endoearditis & Heart Failure

Irene Pearl Billingham \endash Ex nuptial Child! \endash got the medals. I guess EMB is her mother!

Buried with Military Honors.
11 August 1917 @ 1.30 PM
Brookwood Cemetery, Brookwood (London England)
Grave 179,636 Australian Military Section


Title
Christie Oswald Thomas : SERN 6297 : POB Crookwell NSW : POE Sydney NSW : NOK F Christie William James

• Newspaper: Family Notices, 1919 Aug 9, Sydney District, New South Wales. ⁵ Family Notices. (1919, August 9). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 12. Retrieved December 15, 2011, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28096063>
CHRISTIE-In loving memory of Pte. Oswald Thomas Christie, died of illness, August 9, 1917.
The midnight stars are shining
On a grave far, far away.
Where comrades laid my dear boy Just two years to-day.
Inserted by his friend. E. M. B.

• Newspaper: Family Notices, 1919 Aug 9, Sydney District, New South Wales. ⁶ Family Notices. (1920, August 9). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 8. Retrieved December 15, 2011, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28092787>
CHRISTIE-In loving memory of our dear son and bro-ther. Ossie, died August 9. 1317, No 3 A.G.H., Lon- don. Fond hearts still miss you. Inserted by his loving family.
CHRISTIE.-In loving memory of Pte. Oswald Thomas
Christie, 19th- Batt., who died of Illness. August 9, 1917.
I cannot clasp your hand, dear boy,
Your face I-cannot see;
But let this little token tell
I still remember thee.
Inserted by his loving friend. E. M. B.

• Newspaper: Family Notices, 1919 Aug 10, Sydney District, New South Wales. ⁷ Family Notices. (1918, August 10). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 12. Retrieved December 15, 2011, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15797491>
CHRISTIE-In loving memory of our dear brother, Corporal Oswald Thomas Christie, who died in No. 1. London General Hospital, August 9, 1917.
We pictured you, dear brother, returning,
We longed for a clasp of your hand. But God has postponed the meeting,
We will meet in a better land.
Inserted by his loving sister, Annie, and brothers, Clyd and Cecil (on active service).
CHRISTIE-- In loving memory of our dear brother, Corporal Oswald Thomas Christie, who died of ill- ness, August 9, 1917.
We did not see you die, dear brother, We did not know your pain;
We only know you passed away. And did not say good-bye.
Inserted by his loving Sister and brother-in-law, F. and A. Lewis.

Oswald had a relationship with Ethel May Billingham [35779] [MRIN: 13619], daughter of Henry Spencer Billingham [35781] and Mary E. [35782]. (Ethel May Billingham [35779] was born in 1898 in Kogarah District, New South Wales and died on 1971 Jan 28 in Bankstown District, New South Wales, Australia.)