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Merle-Anne Florist

1995

Overview

A small beige memorial card from “Merle-Anne Florist” with an inscription in brown ink on behalf of the grandchildren of Kingsley Charles MOHR located within a brown frame. At the top of the card in the left-hand corner is a trademark for “TELEFLORA” corner and in the right-hand corner is a spray of leaves. The florist’s address and phone numbers are located below the florist’s name. A hand-written message in capitals fills the rest of the card.

Historical information

Sapper Kingsley Charles MOHR WX26433 was born in Northam 29 August 1909. A farm labourer, he enlisted at Guildford in Western Australia on 23 June 1942. He served in the 2/1 Australian Mechanical Equipment Company, a specialist unit using earth moving machines and equipment manned by experienced operators. MOHR was trained at the School of Mechanical Earth Moving Equipment in Guildford, Western Australia, and in June 1943 was appointed “TGI Operator Excavator”. In September 1943 he served in Port Moresby before returning to Australia (Brisbane) in August 1944. In April 1945 he was in Morotai and British North Borneo in July. MOHR returned to Australia on 2 January 1946 and was discharged on 24 January having served 625 days of Active Service overseas and 1495 days in Australia. MOHR returned to Denmark, where he died at the age of 87 on 28 November 1995 and is buried in the town’s cemetery.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-12-2023.14.35

Item type

Mementos

Themes

War and Conflict > World War 2

Material

Card

Width

100 mm

Height or length

76 mm

Depth

1 mm

Weight

2 g

Inscriptions and markings

“Merle-Anne Florist / TELEFLORA (flowers sent anywhere) 68 York Street, Albany 6330 / Phone 411566, 416674” printed in ink with “FONDEST MEMORIES OF A / TRUE GENTLEMAN / FROM GRANDCHILDREN / RAY, JANINE, OLIVIA & / ERIN FRANCIS. (YARRARA VIC)” written in black ink.

Contextual information

Merle-Anne Florist was located at 150 York Street Albany, Western Australia, and operated there for a number of decades. It is now closed.

Keywords

Second World War

Kingsley Charles MOHR

Place made

Albany, Western Australia, Australia

Year

1995

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