Family history across the seas

My family history in Australia and overseas and related migration research

A family ANZAC: Pte Hugh Moran Part II

25 April, 2017

After Pte Hugh Moran enlisted in 1940 he was sent first to Darwin then north Africa where he was captured and taken as a Prisoner of War to Italy from 1941 to 1943. You can read about his experience in Part I. As the Italians signed the Armistice of Cassibile in September 1943, the Germans … More A family ANZAC: Pte Hugh Moran Part II

A family ANZAC: Pte Hugh Moran (Part I)

25 April, 2017

It has become a tradition among Australian and New Zealand genealogy bloggers to remember our ANZAC family members and others on Anzac Day each year. This is my contribution for 2017 – a man I knew nothing about until this week. Hugh Augustine Moran was my mother’s first cousin, born in Ingham, Queensland on 6 … More A family ANZAC: Pte Hugh Moran (Part I)