Each year Sunbury people ran a day excursion to one of the seaside attractions in Port Phillip Bay. The badges were issued to participants and became a means of identification. This badge was issued for the 1941 excursion. Cornelius Trask was the owner of the badge. He lived in Brook Street, Sunbury.The annual seaside excursion that Sunbury residents enjoyed was an important event in the town's calendar.A red and cream badge with a metal clip on the back which was worn at a special event. The badge has been attached to a Shire of Bulla letterhead page and the letter was written by John Kelly to John Blight, who donated the badge. 2248.1 and .2 relate to the acquisition of the badge.badges, excursions, sunbury, cornelius trask

The older fenced-off grave without a headstone is that of Cornelius Ford who had a private funeral when he was buried in Sunbury Cemetery on 7 December 1908, aged seventy-one. He is buried in Section H, plots 1 - 4. The registrar was McMahon and the undertaker was Trask. Cornelius Trask conducted a butcher's business in Brook Street and O'Shanassy Street. He also worked for some time as a publican at the Ball Court Hotel. He was also known as Gus.A non-digital black and white photograph of a recently dug grave in readiness for an internment. A short distance from the recently dug grave is a fenced-off grave without a headstone. There are a number of graves with headstones in the middle distance.ford, cornelius., sunbury cemetery