Mary Jean Officer Forster (1927 - 1963)

 

Mary Jean Officer Forster, born in Sydney on 3rd February, 1927 to Cameron McDougall Forster, MD and Jean Catherine Forster née Officer.  Her brothers were Cameron Hugh Forster and Frank Menzies Cameron Forster, MD.

 

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Mary's Childhood Portrait. Mary aged three. Mary aged four at Barton Avenue, Haberfield, Sydney. Mary, 1932. Mary at the playground. Mary, Sydney.

 

Mary at Firbank, Brighton. Mary, early teens. Mary resting in Cochrane Street garden. Mary's Eighteenth Birthday Portrait. Mary and Clio, London. Mary's 25th birthday Portrait.

 

Mary Jean Officer Forster in England. Mary Jean Officer Forster. Passport photo of Mary Jean Officer Forster. Mary & Crumpet in the Boisdes Marechaux, part of Ramboullet, 21 October, 1951. Mary Jean Officer Forster. Mary on the water, 18 May, 1958.

 

Mary on The Strand, London.

 

Mary and Frank, 1929. Frank & Mary at Barton Avenue, Haberfield, Sydney. Mary, Cam and Frank, 1930. Mary, Frank & Cam with their father, Cameron in 1932. Mary & Frank, 1932. Mary & Frank at Cochrane Street, 1934.

 

Mary, Frank & Cam in 1935.

 

Mary with her Grandfather, Frank Suetonius Officer, Zintarra. Mary with her Uncle, Hugh Officer. Mary with her Father, Cameron, 1942. Mary with her Aunt Helene, 1942 at Cochrane Street. Mary with Dan at Cochrane Street. Mary with her Uncle Hugh and Grandmother, Ethel Catherine Marzetti Officer at Darkwater in the UK.

 

Mary with Cam and Frank in Sydney, 1927. Mary and Frank. Mary and Frank. Mary and Frank, Zintarra. Mary posing with the heifers and her Aunt Elsie, Zintarra.

 

Mary and Frank with their Aunt Elsie, Zintarra. Mary and Frank, Zintarra. Mary seated right of the Firbank H6 Class Mistress. Mary with her Uncle Hugh. Mary second from left in front row at the International Girl Guides Assembly.

 

From Left Dr. Donald Cameron Forster, unknown man, Helen Officer, Rosemary Webb née Officer (wife of Don Webb), Helen Elizabeth (Betty) Officer née McMicken (wife of Francis Read Officer), unknown man, Elsie Officer née Ash (wife of Donald Gatenby Officer and mother of Rosemary) and Mary Jean Officer Forster - at a party hosted by Jean Catherine Forster née Officer c1957, Hawthorn. Mary, Carbis Bay, St. Ives in Sydney, September 1961, her father's last photograph of her before she died on 31st July, 1963. Mary with her mother, Jean, in Melbourne.

 

 

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