The history hunters: A prisoner, a widow and a search for answers

Tom O'Callaghan
Updated December 15 2017 - 9:09am, first published 8:30am

Amid leather-bound tomes intrepid researchers are digging up Bendigo’s history. As TOM O’CALLAGHAN discovers, finding out what really happened takes more than a five minute Google search.

Wilfred Warwick’s name is listed on a war memorial in Rossendale, in the United Kingdom. He died in a prisoner of war camp in 1918. So why on earth did he list his next-of-kin as one Mrs A L Pankurst of Wattle Street, Bendigo?

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Tom O'Callaghan

Tom O'Callaghan

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