Australian History

[DrDuck]

Aww, you made me blush....

They took some photos at work to put on a board, and I thought I had lost a bit of weight since the previous one....

Back to the question - was it Captain Thunderbolt?

 

[goldtruck59]

Not Captain Thunderbolt, but I was small, fleet footed and cheeky in my younger years.

 

[Mackka]

Lookin mighty healthy Dr.Duck.
As you live close and my memory is bad, what is the name of the bushranger buried on the road from Yass to binalong, please?
Cheers
Mackka
Apologies didn't mean to high jack the question.

 

[goldtruck59]

Lookin mighty healthy Dr.Duck.
As you live close and my memory is bad, what is the name of the bushranger buried on the road from Yass to binalong, please?
Cheers
Mackka
Apologies didn't mean to high jack the question.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilbert_(bushranger)
This may be who you are looking for Mackka

 

[goldtruck59]

sounds like another clue is needed.

I was known by two names and I was a police killer In WA in the 19th century

 

[Nanjim]

Moondyne Joe....

 

[goldtruck59]

Sorry Nanjim that's not the man I need.

 

[goldtruck59]

here's a clue that will give it away.
My crime was perpetrated at Lillimooloora police station

 

[Paydirt]

Jandamurra

 

[goldtruck59]

Correct Paydirt

Good story. I've been there and also to Richardson's grave in Derby. Lillimooloora would of been a very isolated spot in those days, and it is now too.
Full story here.
http://ia.anu.edu.au/biography/jandamarra-8822

 

[Paydirt]

This Pom migrated to Oz in 1911 and joined Permanent Military Force the next year. Started as a sarge and finished as a honorary Lt Col. in 1949. Was considered a courageous leader of men. His work had a great influence on the area shown in my avatar. (apols if he has been done before).

 

[Big Nugget]

James Ernest Newland ?

 

[Paydirt]

Nyet

 

[goldtruck59]

Hugh Powell Gough Clews

 

[Paydirt]

The man himself, Major Clews. Would loved to have been on some of his trips thru the mountains. All yours goldtruck

 

[goldtruck59]

similar theme

Who am I

I was Rhodes scholar, won a Kings Polar medal and I fought in the Battle of the Somme. Born in the later part of the 19th century.

 

[Paydirt]

Monash

 

[goldtruck59]

No mate, but I was known as one of Australia's last "Classic Explorers"

 

[Magilla]

Cecil Madigan?

 

[goldtruck59]

Good work Magilla and well googled.
I have followed the Madigan line across the Simpson and stayed at several of his camps. The height of the dunes around camp 15 are amazing and to think they did it on Camels !!! Geez. They also broadcast from the desert of a night. They had a tough time of it in 1939. They left from Andado station where I have also visited. Great story.

Cecil Madigan