Alexander Charles Nicol
Forty-seven Foxe StreetMen have been conspicuous by their absence over the generations at Forty-seven Foxe Street so, Alfred was a pleasant surprise.He came to light pink, handsome and complete with the proud emu plumes of the Australian Light Horse as Tracey was clearing Gran’s house. Who was he? Gran’s boyfriend? Better yet, could he be an ancestor? In a classic ’who-do-you-think-you-are-moment Tracey claims him as an ancestor and sets out to make him the center of a Uni. Assignment.She’s not prepared for what she finds. Alfred is her great, great grandfather, a German Australian.He is one of the hundreds who went to war to support the country their parents now called home. They left families to face Government sanctioned victimization from their neighbors, and a country deeply divided by the war.Like so many, Alfred is killed, but not in the war... in a different war, a dirty little war, not one we learned about at school.When they should have been heading for home the British use Alfred and his mates to suppress an Egyptian Independence Movement.
