Life in the Australian Backblocks by Edward S Sorenson THE STOCKMAN “‘Twas merry ‘mid the blackwoods when we spied the station roofs, To wheel the wild scrub cattle at the yard, With a running fire of stockwhips, and a fiery run of hoofs— Oh! the hardest day was never then too hard.” Adam Lindsay Gordon. […]
Left Waiting at the Church –
WAITING AT THE CHURCH. PLIGHT OF A PAIR IN PICCADILLY A Brace of Boulderites Kept Waiting at the Matrimonial Starting Barrier— For the Parson who ” Forgot.” 11th April 1909 A NOW HAPPY PAIR (since they are married) who, for the best part of an hour, on Wednesday afternoon last, feared that their chance of […]
John “Jack” Ivison – Fighting son of the Empire
In Memory of an Anzac Soldier Private John “Jack” Ivison 1888 – 1915 By Julia Robinson-White, 26 April 2021 Published on: www.dustandglare.home.blog/in-memory-of-an-anzac-soldier/ Anzac Day – 25 April 2021 Amongst a box of family photographs given to me for safekeeping by my Dad’s cousin, I came across a postcard of a Digger from WWI. The photo […]
When a Funeral was Bushed –
Inquirer and Commercial News 28 December 1894, page 19 THE UNSANITARY STATE OF COOLGARDIE A GRUESOME SUBJECT The Coolgardie Miner thus holds forth in a recent issue — Coolgardie has always been noted for producing a fine vigorous growth of liars. About every ten minutes we meet somebody who tells us that there were nine […]
Malcolm Cemetery – the legion of the lost
Malcolm Cemetery Biographies: 137 burials Also known as Mount Malcolm There are 2 Cemeteries at Malcolm Malcolm Salt Lake Cemetery AKA Lake Raeside – 123 burial from 1897-1911 Malcolm Kookynie Road Cemetery 14 burials 1911 – 1915 Unfortunately, apart from identifying various headstones in each cemetery, there are no separate registers for each cemetery ADAMS […]
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