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There is an excellent overview of the suburb of Petersham, NSW on Wikipedia.  It includes a brief reference to Petersham Public School.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petersham,_New_South_Wales

On Wednesday 2 May 1945 at approximately 11.30am a Mosquito aircraft of the Royal Air Force 618 Squadron exploded in the skies over Petersham. Flight Lieutenant David George Rochford, RAF Volunteer Reserve and Leading Aircraftman Charles Broughton Boydell, Royal Australian Air Force, were killed in the crash. Neither man’s parachute opened at a sufficient heightContinue reading “The day World War II came to Petersham Public School, NSW”

G’day girls and boys This blog is designed to encourage people who were at Petersham Public School in the class that would have started Kindergarten in 1956 and finished 6th Class in 1963. Some people were at Peto for 8 years.  Others would have come and went for only some of those years.  The commonContinue reading “Welcome to the Peto Public blog!”