Peter Bannan
HIDDEN historical treasures have been unearthed by two unsuspecting local residents in the most unlikely of places.
Dean Stanyer was renovating when he discovered some century-old discharge documents concealed in the walls of his Swan Hill home, while Tooleybuc’s Geoff Edmunds found a letter from a World War I prisoner of war tucked in the pages of an antique book.
The documents came to light following a recent series of letters from WWI soldiers published in The Guardian transcribed by Swan Hill Genealogical and Historical Society’s Steve Pentreath.
Mr Edmunds’ story began in 1981, when he was on a trip to the Australian War Memorial in Canberra with his two young sons.
For more on this story see Friday’s Guardian (May 8).
