Mr and Mrs Simons were the parents of Jessie Elizabeth Hookway (nee Simons), aged 93 in 2004. ;;A letter and a postcard survived in this family, written by two soldiers who were friends of the family and on active duty in World War I. Both were killed in action and are buried at 26 Villers Bretonneux, France.;;Mrs Hookway, then only a very young child, has a memory of one of them 'riding his push- bike down the road on the way to camp somewhere I imagine'.;;Mrs Hookway (born in 1911) was a nurse in World War II and a prisoner of war in Sumatra for three and a half years, under the Japanese. She published a book relating to these experiences, republished in 1985 under the new title 'In Japanese Hands: Australian Nurses as P.O.W's' ; the earlier title being 'While History Past: the story of the Australian nurses who were prisoners of the Japanese for three and a half years' (1954). She lived in Launceston where she resumed her nursing career, becoming a sub-matron of the Launceston General Hospital and later a Child Health Clinic sister.