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1918 Final post on a terrible 10 months for the Levy / Waxman family
As covered already, Bert & Harriet lost their only son (20) , and their nephew Cyril Whelan (19) (a Waxman) in same accident on Anzac day 1918 over the skies of London. Bert and Harriet had also lost another another nephew 8 months earlier in August 1917 in Captain Roy Blashki from Sydney. Roy was…
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Moths
In August of 1911 one of Bert’s sketches appeared in the prestigious American ‘Life Magazine’. The full-page sketch titled ‘Moths’, depicted the insect transforming into the newly invented biplanes flying too close to a lit candle, symbolically ‘the flame’, crashing to earth.[1] In 1911, this sketch had been intended to highlight the potential pitfalls of a life on the stage, those seeking fame,…
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Letter from Alwyn to his parents….
Below is an extended piece written by Bert which contains the contents of Alwyn’s letter which he wrote just prior to his death.
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Anniversary of tragic accident over skies of London
This Anzac Day (April 25) will also be the 104th anniversary of the death of Bert and Harriet’s only child Alwyn. In what can only be described as truly tragic, Alwyn Levy (age 20) and his first cousin (Cyril Whelan) from Melbourne collided mid air giving a flying demonstration over London. Cyril (age 19) was…
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Alwyn Levy (1898-1918)
Just a recap. Alwyn Gordon Levy was born in Sydney in March 1898. He was Bert and Harriet’s only child. Alwyn was just 8 when he travelled with his mother to join Bert in the USA in February 1906. They lived in the neighbourhood of Flatbush, part of the Borough of Brooklyn, New York State.…
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1918 Bert & son attempt to enlist……
In June 1917, Bert Levy crossed the US / Canada border with his son Alwyn with the intent for them both to enlist in the Canadian military. Report below published in The Bulletin. Bert was 47 years of age. The prior year, 1917 Bert had been supporting the Imperial war effort by getting behind the…
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Bert’s enduring legacy – jumping to 1918
Taking a break from Bert’s time in Bendigo 1900/01 and and jumping nearly two decades to 1918. This was a calamitous year for Bert and the wider Levy family. But before I take you to this, a reminder here of the good works Bert Levy was still undertaking in the United States after 15 years…
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Corrections to Bert’s ‘local celebs’ characters
I have received correspondence from the extremely helpful Rita Hull at the Bendigo Family History Group’ who has pointed out that Bert’s depiction of ‘a leading Bendigo brewer’ is not a Cohn, as I thought, but rather Freddie Hunter of the Kent Brewery. Click on the link above to read some brief history of the…
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The other local celebs in Bendigo in 1900…
Here is Dr Burke-Gaffney’s 1918 Obit in the Advertiser. Described as an old man he died at age 63….. gulp!! https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/90512769?searchTerm=Burke%20Gaffney
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The Easter Fair Secretary……
Bert Levy, was new to being a journalist, in his late twenties in a strange city where he quickly became ‘the’ social commenter in town and established friendships with some of the most ‘connected’ people of that time …. Harry Marks was an auctioneer, former Mayor and publisher of the Bendigo Evening Mail, a third…
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