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How A Young Man From War-Torn Germany Found His Utopia On The Other Side Of The World Part Three

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" It's been a long while till I'll see you again... " these words were hauntingly beautiful when I heard them today and I sadly remembered that on this day eleven years ago...my father passed away, suddenly. There were no goodbyes, in an instant he was on his next journey, without me. We had shared a unique experience back in 1975/76 when we visited the area of his birth Bamberg , Germany. ( Discussed in Part One ). He shared with me, then, a lot of his experiences as a young boy growing up in Bamberg , Germany. However, part of his story, that he didn't share with me, has been the nature of my research for the past two years. It's taken a while, because of my health and the lack of information that I've been able to find. But today, I think it's time to tell the rest of what I've found...if you missed the second part, or need to refresh your memory... here it is Once Arno arrived and had cleared all the immigration details in Fremantle,

Daniel Frank Kelly

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DANIEL FRANK KELLY   1886 - 1916 'No Known Grave' Photo supplied by Maggie Goss     Daniel Frank Kelly   was born in November 1886 in Sebastian, Victoria, Australia .                 The eldest child and son of Michael Kelly and Margaret Mary Mulvahill, Daniel was a hard working lad and was working as a Butcher at A W Brown Butcher Marong, Victoria, Australia,  in 1913.  He was also involved in the Hibernian Australian Catholic Benefit Society (HACBS) a church based support network that had been established by Irish immigrants. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernian_Australasian_Catholic_Benefit_Society )  By 1914 as the clouds of world war one were rumbling in Europe, Daniel was  living and working in Raywood, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia and  Daniel was still working as a butcher. War broke out on the 28 July 1914,when Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was assassinated in Sarajevo.The Austro-Hungarian Empire dec