A Mother's Worry

The Saddler from Northam, Western Australia

My ANZAC story for today is A Mother’s Worry, the story of William Henry Caddy, a saddler from Northam, Western Australia, and my grandmother’s younger brother.

William survived the war. He served with the 10th Field Artillery Brigade in France, battled illness more than once, and eventually made it home in July 1919. But not before his mother, Annie Caddy, wrote a quietly desperate letter to the Commonwealth Military Forces asking if anyone could tell her where her son was.

That letter, just a few lines on a page, is the heart of this story. A mother who hadn’t heard from her boy in months, not knowing if he was alive or already on his way home. The officer in charge of records wrote back to assure her he was on his way.

He was. He came home, married and had four children.

The full story, including Annie’s letter and a recently discovered photograph of William taken in England before he sailed home, is over on my Jenealogy Scrapbook of Family History Stories. Link below.

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Link to: A Mother’s Worry

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