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Osmond Allen McLeod Mondy WILSON  ‎(I8743)‎
Given Names: Osmond Allen McLeod
Surname: WILSON
Nickname: Mondy

Gender: MaleMale
      

Birth: 13 July 1884 22 26 -- Lewisham Road, Windsor, Victoria, Australia
Death: 3 July 1926 ‎(Age 41)‎ -- Nice, France


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Birth 13 July 1884 22 26 Lewisham Road, Windsor, Victoria, Australia

Biographical Notes

Hide Details Note: Mondy was regarded by his many girl cousins as a romantic figure and in the photograph of him taken at Meerut, India in his dress uniform of the crack British Regiment, the 17th Lancers, he lives up to their ideals. Soon after leaving school at Melbourne he went to Sydney from where he commenced his travels. To reach England he obtained the position of purser on a cruise ship and at London found employment at the Army and Navy Stores. He joined the British Army at the age of 19 in 1903. Prospective officers in the old regiments were required to supply some account of their ancestry. This started Osmond senior on research of his ancestry. Mondy served with the Lancashire Fusilliers 17th Lancers ‎(Cavalry)‎ in India and remained with the army for 10 years. He resigned with the rank of Captain in the English summer of 1913. While looking for suitable occupation he stayed at Clapton, London with Edward John Sharpe, a distant Reeves relative, a descendant of Mary Ann Coleman, sister of Mondy's great grandmother Charlotte Martha Reeves ‎(nee Kemp)‎. Mr. Sharpe was at that time corresponding with Reeves descendants in South Australia. E.M.S. has a packet of 25 of these letters. Nothing in England suited Mondy, by then aged 29, so he took ship to Canada and joined the North West Mounted Police. There is a photograph of him in uniform mounted on a well groomed horse.
World War 1 began. He was still on the British Army Reserve, so was called up 1915. On the back of his picture in the uniform of a Captain, Royal Field Artillery, he wrote:

Shaburyness,
22 September 1915

Dear Mother,
I am at the Artillery School of Instruction here learning gunnery. I am having a fairly stiff time of it and working very hard by day studying in the evening. I am keeping quite well and having very good messing ‎[i.e. meals]‎.
My love to all, your loving son,
Mondy.

He served both in Egypt and France where at the latter, he was badly gassed. He did an officers course at Heytesbury House, Wiltshire.

On demobilisation, again with the rank of captain, he returned to Victoria and took up a soldier settlement block at Red Cliffs, River Murray, Victoria. His sister May kept house for him. His lungs were affected by the German gas and tuberculosis ensued. He left Australia in the early part of 1926 with the intention of entering a Swiss Clinic which treated this illness, but at Nice, France, in July, he was taken ill and unable to continue further. He died there on July 3rd. He was aged 41.

Death 3 July 1926 ‎(Age 41)‎ Nice, France

Burial Nice, France

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Parents Family  (F2780)
Osmond Henry WILSON
1861 - 1945
Annie Melina HARRIS
1858 - 1932
Osmond Allen McLeod Mondy WILSON
1884 - 1926
Christobel Ruby Kemp WILSON
1886 - 1968
May Dorthea WILSON
1891 - 1974
Victor Stanley WILSON
1892 - 1978
Elsie Lilian Pearl WILSON
1899 - 1940


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Parents Family  (F2780)
Osmond Henry WILSON
1861 - 1945
Annie Melina HARRIS
1858 - 1932
Osmond Allen McLeod Mondy WILSON
1884 - 1926
Christobel Ruby Kemp WILSON
1886 - 1968
May Dorthea WILSON
1891 - 1974
Victor Stanley WILSON
1892 - 1978
Elsie Lilian Pearl WILSON
1899 - 1940

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Father
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Osmond Henry WILSON ‎(I9902)‎
Birth 4 November 1861 41 35 -- Westbrook Farm, Mount Barker, South Australia, Australia
Death 11 December 1945 ‎(Age 84)‎ -- Fernholme, Sandringham, Victoria, Australia
Mother
 
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Annie Melina HARRIS ‎(I8744)‎
Birth 1858 17 -- Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia
Death 5 February 1932 ‎(Age 74)‎ -- Fernholme, Sandringham, Victoria, Australia

Marriage: 1 February 1883 -- Registry Office, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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Osmond Allen McLeod Mondy WILSON ‎(I8743)‎
Birth 13 July 1884 22 26 -- Lewisham Road, Windsor, Victoria, Australia
Death 3 July 1926 ‎(Age 41)‎ -- Nice, France
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Christobel Ruby Kemp WILSON ‎(I8742)‎
Birth 1 March 1886 24 28 -- National Bank, Northcote, Victoria, Australia
Death 11 August 1968 ‎(Age 82)‎ -- Private Hospital Heath Street, Sandringham, Victoria, Australia
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May Dorthea WILSON ‎(I8739)‎
Birth 18 January 1891 29 33 -- National Bank, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Death 20 March 1974 ‎(Age 83)‎ -- Saint Elizabeth Private Hospital Wattletree Road, Malvern, Victoria, Australia
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Victor Stanley WILSON ‎(I8737)‎
Birth 24 August 1892 30 34 -- National Bank, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Death 31 January 1978 ‎(Age 85)‎ -- Repatriation Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
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Elsie Lilian Pearl WILSON ‎(I8740)‎
Birth 5 March 1899 37 41 -- National Bank, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Death 9 April 1940 ‎(Age 41)‎ -- Fernholme, Sandringham, Victoria, Australia


Osmond Allen McLeod Mondy WILSON
Osmond Henry WILSON
Annie Melina HARRIS
Allen WILSON
Ellen McLeod REEVES
Christopher WILSON
Mary ALLEN

William ALLEN
Ann SHOOSMITH
Samuel REEVES
Charlotte Martha KEMP
John REEVES
Elizabeth ‎(unknown)‎
Anthony REEVES
Ann STONE
Samuel REEVES
Sarah ‎(unknown)‎


William KEMP
Charlotte ‎(unknown)‎
William Thomas Benjamin James HARRIS
Melina MURPHY

William MURPHY
Johanna MULDOWNEY
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