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Featured Photo for November 1999
The Thomas Joseph Byrnes Memorial at the Toowong Cemetery in Brisbane,
Queensland, Australia. Photograph taken in 1999 by [peace@kewl.com.au].
Note: Unauthorized use of this photograph without permission
from the photographer is strictly prohibited.
About the monument:
The inscription on the monument reads:
Sacred
to
the memory of
THE HONOURABLE
THOMAS JOSEPH BYRNES
CHIEF SECRETARY PRIME MINISTER
and ATTORNEY GENERAL OF QUEENSLAND
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
27th SEP 1898 AGED 37 YEARS
The memorial also commemorates his family:
Beloved Sister
MATILDA MARGARET MOLONEY
died 27th May 1922
and
ANNIE BYRNES
died 7th October 1928
MICHAEL VINCENT BYRNES
(couldn't read date)
and
ELIZABETH McGREIVY
Wife of John
departed this life
20th November 1948
Unfortunately the long inscription on the front of the monument
is barely readable.
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