Photograph, Walter Bonwick and his sons, 12 Loch Street, 1936

Historical information

The people are identified as Mr Walter Bonwick and his sons. The photo was taken in 1936.
Walter Hugh Bonwick (1899-1964) was an engineer. He married Christina Erica Strom (1893-1984) in 1924. Her parents were Herman Strom and Mary Eadington Rule Pyatt. Christina served as a staff nurse in WW1. She enlisted on 8 May 1917 and embarked from Melbourne on board RMS Somali on 30 June 1917; she returned to Australia on 17 July 1919. Her diary is digitised on the Australian War Memorial website, along with a typed transcript.
Sons:
John Edwin Bonwick - engineer
William (Bill) Bonwick - Associate Professor of Engineering, Monash University (1933-2011)

Physical description

A black and white photograph of a man with two boys standing in the front garden. There is a car in the background, to the right, and a house in the background on the left.

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