Our maternal grandmother was born Helen Pearson at Bonegilla, near Wodonga in Victoria, Australia, on November 27, 1893. She was head girl at The Hermitage in Geelong; spent the years immediately before and during World War I with her parents and siblings at Chorleywood near London; returned to Australia in 1919; married William Arthur Borthwick in 1920. They raised a family of two sons and two daughters. Gran died peacefully in Melbourne in 1975.
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