Australian History

[Manpa]

i am an event which occured in 1966, arguably the second of my type in Australia.

What am I and who was involved?

 

[Manpa]

i am an event which occured in 1966, arguably the second of my type in Australia.

What am I and who was involved?

I took place in suburban Sydney.

 

[Ward69]

Why Im wanting for everyone to get ready, for this party.

National service conscripts flys out of Richmond air base for 1st time. Vietnam war.

 

[Manpa]

Sorry Ward69, no

i am an event which occured in 1966, arguably the second of my type in Australia.

What am I and who was involved?

I took place in suburban Sydney.

I followed 4 successful individual events overseas in recent times, yet I failed.

 

[Manpa]

i am an event which occured in 1966, arguably the second of my type in Australia.

What am I and who was involved?

I took place in suburban Sydney.

I followed 4 successful individual events overseas in recent times, yet I failed.

Shots were fired.

 

[Rockhunter62]

How about this. Attempted assissination of Arthur Calwell. :bomb:

Was attempted by Peter Kocan.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Arthur_Calwell

Cheers

Doug

 

[Manpa]

Spot on Rockhunter, over to you.

Kocan felt he needed to do something out of the ordinary to be remembered, and with the assassinations in the US he felt assassinating a politican in Aus would give him some notoriety.

 

[Rockhunter62]

Thanks Manpa, I have to go out and check on a cattle trough that I just fixed so I'll post a question a little later.

Cheers

Doug

 

[Rockhunter62]

Ok folks,

"Who am I?"

I have worked in a hospital that was attached to the Serbian Army.

Cheers

Doug

 

[Manpa]

Seargent O Kelso King, born Sydney 1885 who worked as an ambulance driver and at the Scottish Womens Hospital in Serbia during WW1?

 

[Rockhunter62]

Ok folks,

"Who am I?"

I have worked in a hospital that was attached to the Serbian Army.

Cheers

Doug

No sorry Manpa.

Here's another clue.

"The waratah features in my history."

Cheers

Doug

 

[Rockhunter62]

The question,

Who am I?

The clues,

I have worked in a hospital that was attahed to the Serbian Army.

The waratah features in my history.

I am female.

Cheers

Doug

 

[Rockhunter62]

Another clue.

I was once known as "An old bachelor."

Cheers

Doug

 

[Rockhunter62]

Another clue.

I have also worked in Chicago USA.

Cheers

Doug

 

[Manpa]

is it Miles Franklin, author and namesake of the Miles Franklin Award for Literature?

 

[user 4386]

You beat me to it Manpa!

 

[Rockhunter62]

You got it Manpa, over to you. :Y:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Franklin

Cheers

Doug

 

[Manpa]

Thanks Doug, who am I, i am more commonly known by my nickname and I am written into Australian folklore?

 

[Mirrors]

Banjo Patterson?

 

[Mirrors]

Paterson lol