Australian History

[goldtruck59]

Ivan Armov

HAHA

 

[goldtruck59]

Dan Kelly?

Sorry Duck no cigar.

Clue 3

I was on the run for 24 hours and my arm had to come off as it was now not able to be saved. I had lost too much blood.
Divine intervention unwittingly saved me.

 

[DrDuck]

Thomas Rares was a bushranger who had is arm amputated in Tasmania in 1830, but I don't know if he was Irish.

 

[Paydirt]

Lefty? No I've got it now - The One Armed Bandit, sorry will now crawl back into hole

 

[goldtruck59]

Sorry fellas no cigars

Clue 1

I didn't know who I could trust. My own wife went to the police. I am injured as I have a badly injured arm. I am hiding with a price on my head. As a stubborn Irishman, I will not surrender easily.

Clue 2

Minor correction to the above. It was a friends wife that was suspected of going to the police as I was yet to be married to my belle a couple of years later.
My arm now was becoming worse and I may lose it. The bullet had shattered the bone.

Clue 3

I was on the run for 24 hours and my arm had to come off as it was now not able to be saved. I had lost too much blood.
Divine intervention unwittingly saved me.

Clue 4

I am not a bushranger, and was more of a ringleader. infact my later lifes persuits were quite the opposite.
Duck you were 20 years too early and paydirt I was a righty.

 

[Tathradj]

The Duck,
Just received my prize and Thank You for that. I am quite impressed with it.
It will be very well used I can tell you. I am very flattered as I do not win much. :8

Doug

 

[loamer]

have we had Peter Lalor yet?

 

[goldtruck59]

No and I was waiting for you Loamer as this was right up your alley. I followed on from your Eureka flag question.
It is Peter Lalor.
As we know he was shot at the Eureka stockade stoush and escaped to finally make it to the safety of Father Smyths presbytery, where Drs. Doyle and Stewart amputated his arm.

Over to you mate.

 

[loamer]

Thanks GT.

I am a place. I am located near a major historical gold mining city where gold is still extracted, panned, processed and sold everyday of the year. One of the significant things about me is that I have two historical monuments located within my boundaries. One had the wording on the monument changed from insurgent to aggrieved. The monuments are of great historical significance for several reasons: what they represent and the fact they also highlight the consequences of two very different reactions to the same event . Within the confines of one of the memorials is the burial site for two children.
What is this place called? Bonus point if you know what the two monuments are.

 

[DrDuck]

The place is the Old Ballarat cemetery. The first monument is for the dead soldiers, the inscription which reads:

"the deceased fell
dead, or had been fatally wounded, at the
Eureka Stockade, in brave devotion to duty,
on Sunday, thc 3rd of December, 1854,
whilst attacking a band of aggrieved diggers in arms against what they regarded as a
tyrannous Administration."

The second monument is for the fallen diggers, and reads:

"Sacred to the
memory of those who fell on the memorable
3rd December, 1854, in resisting the
unconstitutional proceedings of the Victorian
Government."

 

[the duck]

I have a button from the 12 regiment of foot need one from the 40th it will happen one day

 

[DrDuck]

And to the Duck, thanks for the very useful prize received today for the competition around the 300,000 view of this thread. It arrived today, a rechargeable LED torch, an item which will definitely come in handy.

I will have to save the very good collection of stamps attached to the parcel!

 

[loamer]

Dr D - yes the cemetery is correct.

The children are buried with the soldiers - they are: headstone for Fanny and Agnes Neill, children of Corporal John Neill of the 40th Regiment. Very sad.

 

[goldtruck59]

Pretty cool monuments. Well done Dr Duck ur quick. 8)

 

[goldtruck59]

And to the Duck, thanks for the very useful prize received today for the competition around the 300,000 view of this thread. It arrived today, a rechargeable LED torch, an item which will definitely come in handy.

I will have to save the very good collection of stamps attached to the parcel!

Got mine too. Many thanks Duck, Im no longer in the Dark.

 

[loamer]

I often wonder - we, the Brits, Kiwis, Canadians etc have the Commonwealth War Graves Commission for our servicemen and women and rightly so, they should be looked after!! I often think about the British Army men who died all over the world in the service of their Empire pre WW1 - I wonder who looks after their graves? Sad to think they are alone somewhere and not being looked after.

 

[Paydirt]

You'd be surprised, have come across really old British graveyards in India and Pakistan that are really well looked after, I assumed by the original army groups still in existence in some form or by local army in reverence.

 

[the duck]

No problem on the prizes its been fun and ive learnt heaps and im still learning thanks for participating to everyone that has contributed

 

[DrDuck]

I'd like to think of a gold question, but to keep it moving, and since I just got home from karaoke, here is a music question:

I was a notable Australian rock and roller, who moved overseas and became a toy manufacturer.

 

[goldtruck59]

somewhere over the rainbow and an oop oop a doo
Billy the legend Thorpe