NEWSPAPER CLIPS

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These three newspaper clippings were included amongst an abundance of letters and photographs in one of Edgars boxes, the context of them, provide much information, so much that they feel almost like clues;
  • "Mr Ted Law"
  • "Mr and Mrs Law who came to Lithgow on March 22, 1916"
  • "Plan to retire at Salamander Bay"
  • "Mr Law will leave the Small Arms Factory, where he is section head"
  • "He served his apprenticeship in a small machine tool shop at Hebden Bridge"
  • "He arrived in Australia 12 years ago"
  • "During the last two years of the 1939-45 he was second in charge of the S.A.F. annex at Orange"
  • "Was a teacher in trades courses and a lecturer on tool making at the Lithgow Technical College"
  • "Mrs Molly Law"
  • "Mollie died Sunday June 26 1960"
  • "Member of the Country Women's Association"
  • "Where he emigrated in 1911"
Edgar was referred to as "Ted" or "Teddy", a nickname that often comes up, he worked at the Lithgow Small Arms Factory during the Second World War. The newspaper clip that dates his arrival to Australia as 12 years prior was unhelpful since there is no way of dating the article, though a separate clipping dates his emigration to Australia as 1911, making the article in question published in 1923. It seems that Edgar was married, to a Molly/Mollie, who according to a written note, died in 1960, and attended the Country Women's Association in Lithgow and Nelson Bay.