Do you know who Norman McWilliam was? A letter needs returning to his family

By Caleb Cluff
Updated March 6 2017 - 12:21pm, first published May 31 2016 - 1:00pm
Dear Mum: Norman McWilliam's letter to his mother describes his first day in the AIF. Picture: Digitally altered image
Dear Mum: Norman McWilliam's letter to his mother describes his first day in the AIF. Picture: Digitally altered image

On December 3, 1914 – almost 102 years ago – 22-year-old Hugh John Norman McWilliam of Brunswick West (later of Ballarat) sent his mother Catherine a letter from the First AIF camp at Broadmeadows. 

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