Edwin Charles Garbett 1907

Scholarship Winner Mechanical Drawing

  In 1907 Edwin Charles Garbett won a Midland Junction Technical Education scholarship in Mechanical Drawing as part of his diesel engineering apprenticeship with the railways. His hobby was painting and in 1916 when he went to war in France, he painted the troop carrier the Plasey, which is now held in the Army Museum in Fremantle. He also painted a picture of the sailing ship the Victory in an autograph book. 

EC Garbett's painting which is held in the Army Museum at Fremantle

Though he was one of the lucky ones who survived the war that took so many other lives, he still experienced his share of bad luck. His wife Ellen died in childbirth leaving a baby daughter, Daphne who was brought up by her grandmother.

Edwin had been Christened in the Methodist Church, but after his marriage, he became involved with the Anglican Church as the Warden of the Church of Ascension in Midland.    

He remarried and went on to have two more children, but died in 1932 of double pneumonia and pleurisy at a relatively young age.

 

Thanks to Daphne Lamont and Brad Cambell for their assistance with this story. 

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