RUSSEL KOSKELA AND SASHA TITCHKOSKY were in the middle of renovating their little weatherboard and fibro house in Patonga when they noticed some strangers parked outside. They went out to say hello, and ended up finding out far more about the house than they possibly could have imagined.
One of those people was Jean, the granddaughter of Fred and Annie Flowers, who had built it in about 1930. They had a chat with her for a while, and she later wrote them a letter, sharing as much as she could about the house and her memories of it. One thing she shed light on was its odd name – Dickebusch. It was named in memory of Fred and Annie’s son, a medic in World War I, who was killed in battle at
