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Wep and Jess setting off for Kosciuszko on their honeymoon; 24 Aug-7 Sep 1933<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jan 1944<\/p>\n

Darling,<\/p>\n

If anything should happen to me I\u2019d like you to do a few things that while I was here I didn\u2019t seem to be able (or for that matter, had no point in saying) to tell. Or ask, of you.<\/p>\n

Above all, I don\u2019t want you to blow the old top! I expect you to be upset \u2013 that is human enough.<\/p>\n

But these are the things I want you to do. I couldn\u2019t tell you them \u2013 it would sound all so silly and melodramatic.<\/p>\n

Go for a trip or something. Don\u2019t hang around the house we lived in. Wipe all the half-wits you and I know are half-wits. Get rid of Molly1<\/a><\/sup>Molly (nee Evans) was married to Bill’s Best Man, Geoff Turton (aka Petrov) a fellow artist at The Australian Women’s Weekly<\/em>. Molly and Geoff were extremely close friends with Bill and Jess but she had a problem with drink which ultimately led to her marriage failing. Clearly Wep could forseee that Molly, sadly, presented a poor influence on Jess<\/span>. And for Christ\u2019s sake don\u2019t finish up the widow Vi2<\/a><\/sup>Violet May Cadd (nee Allmark) (1905-1984) was probably Jess’s best friend. Vi married Robert A. Cadd in 1928. He committed suicide in 1931 and Vi never remarried. She lived with her father a few houses up the road from Bill and Jess in Bellevue Hill at the time of their marriage. Vi was Godmother to both of Bill Pidgeon’s sons, Graham and Peter. She was known as Aunty Vi and was a regular visitor especially at Christmas time.<\/span>. Get married.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t panic. You\u2019ll be getting more money than even you know what to do with. What with office compensation, my insurance, remains of my mother\u2019s property3<\/a><\/sup>Bill’s mother Thirza Jessie (nee White) died of cancer in 1941<\/span>, and your own people\u2019s estate, you will be worth about \u00a35,000. You don\u2019t have to let a cheap hick get hold of you. I would hate the guts of that. Don\u2019t sell your mother\u2019s house.4<\/a><\/sup>Jess was an only child. She was born in 1908, 17 years after her parents George Alexander Graham and Mary Jane Wray married in 1891. George died 14 Jan 1945 when Wep was setting off on another trip and her mother Mary Jane died at Wep’s home a year after Jess in December 1953.<\/span> Don\u2019t sell my property. Lend \u00a31,000 to Jack5<\/a><\/sup>Bill’s older brother John Frederick Pidgeon (1904-1972)<\/span> at 5% – he could use it. All in all you should be able to get about \u00a35 to \u00a36\u00a0 per week without doing a tap.<\/p>\n

Please always be a little bit in love with me. Within my pretty lousy way I have loved you. Unspectacularly maybe \u2013 but there has been no other.<\/p>\n

Please don\u2019t lose that little baby.6<\/a><\/sup>Graham Richard Pidgeon was born July 1, 1944<\/span> Perhaps I\u2019m sloppy \u2013 but I\u2019d like to leave something behind to justify the old existence.<\/p>\n

I love you \u2013 at times, wildly, deliriously, and without reason. I have loved you.<\/p>\n

Too bad I think that there is nothing after all this. I\u2019d have liked to have seen you.<\/p>\n

Snugglepot Bill<\/p>\n

[This letter was probably never revealed to Jess till later. It may have been in a sealed envelope, or it may have been given to an associate to give to her in case Bill was killed whilst overseas.]<\/em><\/p>\n

Note: Bill left for Townsville on 9 January 1944 (Ref: DVA File No. X336636)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Jess Pidgeon with Geoff and Molly Turton as Wep and Jess prepare to set off on their honeymoon to Kosciuszko; 24 Aug-7 Sep 1933<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vi Cadd, Bill Pidgeon and Jess Pidgeon and unidentified at what is probably the 1939 Artists’ Ball held at the Trocadero, 14 Apr 1939. Note – Wep is wearing one of Jess’s dresses.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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1931; L-R: Wep’s brother Jack and his fiancee Verona Chadwick, Thirza Pidgeon (Wep’s mother) and Wep (Bill Pidgeon) in Wep’s 1928 Chrysler 75 Roadster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Graham Richard Pidgeon, three days old; July 4, 1944<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Jessie Ann Pidgeon (nee Graham) circa Aug. 1944, sitting on the front steps of home at 85 Northwood Road;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Little Wep by Wep; The Australian Women’s Weekly, July 21, 1945<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Notes:<\/h3>
  • 1<\/span>
    Molly (nee Evans) was married to Bill’s Best Man, Geoff Turton (aka Petrov) a fellow artist at The Australian Women’s Weekly<\/em>. Molly and Geoff were extremely close friends with Bill and Jess but she had a problem with drink which ultimately led to her marriage failing. Clearly Wep could forseee that Molly, sadly, presented a poor influence on Jess<\/div><\/li>
  • 2<\/span>
    Violet May Cadd (nee Allmark) (1905-1984) was probably Jess’s best friend. Vi married Robert A. Cadd in 1928. He committed suicide in 1931 and Vi never remarried. She lived with her father a few houses up the road from Bill and Jess in Bellevue Hill at the time of their marriage. Vi was Godmother to both of Bill Pidgeon’s sons, Graham and Peter. She was known as Aunty Vi and was a regular visitor especially at Christmas time.<\/div><\/li>
  • 3<\/span>
    Bill’s mother Thirza Jessie (nee White) died of cancer in 1941<\/div><\/li>
  • 4<\/span>
    Jess was an only child. She was born in 1908, 17 years after her parents George Alexander Graham and Mary Jane Wray married in 1891. George died 14 Jan 1945 when Wep was setting off on another trip and her mother Mary Jane died at Wep’s home a year after Jess in December 1953.<\/div><\/li>
  • 5<\/span>
    Bill’s older brother John Frederick Pidgeon (1904-1972)<\/div><\/li>
  • 6<\/span>
    Graham Richard Pidgeon was born July 1, 1944<\/div><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Don\u2019t panic. You\u2019ll be getting more money than even you know what to do with. What with office compensation, my insurance, remains of my mother\u2019s property, and your own people\u2019s estate, you will be worth about \u00a35,000. You don\u2019t have to let a cheap hick get hold of you. 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