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John Woodside
12 years ago

Marguerite Barbara Woodside (1923-2011) was the elder daughter of Arthur Woodside, (1894 -1960) and Margaret Jane Dawson (1887 – 1961) and lived on a cattle property at Dederang in northeast Victoria in her early life. The Woodsides were a very well-known pioneering family in the north-east Victoria from about 1860 to 1920. She married Raymond Phillip Pritchard (b. 1920 at Charleroi, Belgium, d. 1978 at Melbourne) in Sydney. Phillip was an interesting man with a fascinating career before becoming a schoolteacher. His father was an Australian who worked for an American company in Brussels and Paris after World War One and through the Depression. Phillip grew up in Europe speaking a number of languages. When World War Two broke out, the family had to leave and they returned to Australia. Phillip joined the Australian army on returning to Australia. He was posted to the Z Special Unit. It was a specially recruited and trained group of saboteurs who operated behind enemy lines. On discharge, he then attended Sydney University at night where he excelled in languages. In the latter part of his degree course, he taught languages at Newington College during the day even before he got his degree. Marguerite and Phillip were married in 1946 at Neutral Bay in Sydney and lived at Chatswood. They then moved to Melbourne where they lived in at Haileybury College at Brighton East where Phillip was in charge of the boarding school and the senior language master. He then moved in 1973 to Brighton Grammar School. They had two children, Rosemary Anne Pritchard and Michael John Woodside Pritchard. Michael married Monica Margaret Daly but there were no children and died at an early age. After Michael died, Monica remarried. John Woodside (cousin)

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The Age
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