by Warren Nunn
By Coker descendant Warren Nunn When James Thomas Coker died in 1920, he did not leave a will. He was also insolvent. His son Arthur acted on behalf of the family in dealing with the estate through the Public Curators’ Office. After the property in Glenmore...
by Warren Nunn
On 22 August 1918, Harold Card’s short, drama-filled life ended when a German shell burst near the village of Etinehem in the Villers-Bretonneux region of France, not far from the Somme. Just like millions of other young men who had needlessly died on battlefields in...
by Warren Nunn
The prison record of a criminal who spent time in Queensland’s infamous St Helena Island jail is a stark reminder of how human nature can be corrupted. This man, James Thomas Coker, embezzled money as a servant of a municipal authority. I am one of his many...
