MAYBE young German sailor Adolf Nordman dreamed of being more than friends with Nellie Shephard, the tailor’s pretty young daughter whom he met in the port of Newcastle, NSW, in 1909. His postcards, written in the years before the outbreak of World War I, hint that way. If so, his hopes were unrequited. Nellie became the wife of an Australian artillery officer who fought against Adolf’s countrymen … Continue reading The German sailor, the tailor’s daughter and the tragic White Wife of Otterswick