Category Archives: christie family

Chocolate in time of war.

Posted on October 11, 2012 by

My great uncle Morris Christie once had a tooth ache. It was World War Two and Morris was a South African prisoner of war in Poland. He was working in a coal mine and he needed someone to look at … Continue reading →

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Premonitions of death in a fox hole

Posted on June 12, 2012 by

  Private Dick Borain went to war believing he was going to die. He was only 24, but could sense death waiting for him in the desert, outside of the dugout that he shared with my grandfather. Their dugout was … Continue reading →

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Frank’s mean horse

Posted on March 16, 2012 by

He looked ugly and mean, so much so that no one picked him. When Frank Christie arrived late at the army depot, that horse was the only one left in the pen. He had to take it. Frank was my great … Continue reading →

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Myth confirmed

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

My great grandfather wasn’t lying. Polar bears were sighted in the north Atlantic. In a previous blog I told the story of my great grandfather William Frank Christie’s passage across the Atlantic in 1905. It is titled WF’s great north Atlantic … Continue reading →

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WF’s great North Atlantic adventure

Posted on February 7, 2012 by

Every family has them, heirlooms handed down from previous generations. Each has a tale and continuing with the artefacts from the attic series, here are some of mine and the stories they carry. Here two objects tell the story of … Continue reading →

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