AFTER TWENTY-FOUR YEARS
ENGLISH SOLDIER AND BROTHER A REUNION IN SYDNEY (From Our Own Correspondent) SYDNEY, Sept. .18. " Where were you born?" Private Fred Mead, member of a British Expeditionary Force contingent in Sydney, asked Mr George Mead, of Muswellbrook (N.S.W.), by telephone. " Then you are my brother," he declared, when he got the answer. The brothers had not met for 24 years, and the only address Private Mead had to guide him was " Somewhere in Australia." He started his apparently hopeless search the moment he stepped ashore. In 1925 George Mead, a 14-year-old orphan, came to Australia under the Dr Barnardo scheme. Fred had then been away from home since 1916. Private Mead tried vainly to obtain two days' leave to go to Muswellbrook, but his brother came to Sydney for a reunion.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24421, 5 October 1940, Page 19
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