Cousins’ Gallipoli pilgrimage to “say g’day” to lost family

Cousins’ Gallipoli pilgrimage to “say g’day” to lost family

Albany cousins Maitland Osborn and Doug Wright travelled to Gallipoli to find the mass burial places two of their great uncles lay in and follow the footsteps of their grandfather that survived to return home.

War grave for John Andersen

Last year for Remembrance Day, Noosa Today published an article to ask the community to assist with finding descendants of Anzac John Andersen who is interred in an unmarked grave at the Pomona Cemetery. “Our country defender who embarked from Australia on February 1915, served with the 2nd Light Horse Regiment at Gallipoli, before proceeding to France in September 1916, to be taken on strength with the 31st Battalion AIF. Private Andersen was w…