Episodios

  • Private Ken Allison: A WWII Story

    Private Ken Allison: A WWII Story
    Apr 23 2021
    In 1935 Ken Allison performed in an amateur theatre production in the Tarcutta Soldiers Memorial Hall. In 1940 the town gathered at the Hall to farewell him as he 'answered his country’s call.'

    Another brief look into the stories behind the names on the memorial.

    References:
    Ken Allison, Roll of Honour [Australian War Memorial]
    World War 2 Nominal Roll [The Department of Veterans’ Affairs]
    The Daily Advertiser
    The Registry of Births, Deaths, and Marriages Victoria
    Crete Campaign [Australian War Memorial

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  • Charles 'Berry' Bardwell: The man from near the Snowy River

    Charles 'Berry' Bardwell: The man from near the Snowy River
    Apr 23 2021
    What links Trooper Charles Bardwell to the great Australian poet Banjo Patterson? Of course it is going to be a horse. A brief story about a member of the 2nd Australian Remount Unit


    References:
    B2455 3049218 BARDWELL CB [National Archives of Australia]
    The Daily Advertiser
    “The Man Who Wrote Waltzing Matilda - Banjo Paterson” by Derek Parker
    “The Banjo of the Bush” by Clement Semmler
    Australian Dictionary of Biography, “Paterson, Andrew Barton (1864-1941)” by Clement Semmler

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  • The Sacrifices of Esther Bridget Latham

    The Sacrifices of Esther Bridget Latham
    Apr 23 2021
    In 1928, Esther Latham was especially selected by the Tarcutta Soldiers’ Memorial Hall Committee to lay the engraved marble block commemorating the opening of the new hall. In selecting her, the community was recognising the very great sacrifice she had made for her country. But Esther never went to war; instead, four of her five sons joined the army between 1900 and 1915. By the time the hall was opened in 1928, they were all dead.

    References:
    B2455 7378076 LATHAM WILLIAM HENRY [National Archives of Australia]
    B2455 7378043 LATHAM HAROLD [National Archives of Australia]
    B2455 7379834 LATHAM DANIEL WALTER [National Archives of Australia]
    The Australian Town and Country Journal
    Tumut and Adelong Times
    The NSW Registry of Births, Deaths, and Marriages
    Wagga Wagga Express
    NSW Police Gazette

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  • Soldier Settlers and the Tarcutta Estate

    Soldier Settlers and the Tarcutta Estate
    Apr 23 2021
    In 1916 a repatriation scheme was devised to enable thousands of returning soldiers to take up land across Australia, getting them out of the cities into honest, steady work in the fresh air.

    Catch a glimpse into the lives of returned soldiers, Arthur Belling and David Crosby, who both received blocks of land in the Tarcutta District as part of the Soldier Settlers scheme.


    References:
    “He Belonged to Wagga…: the Great War, the AIF and Returned Soldiers in an Australian Country Town” by Dr Ian Hodges
    “Tarcutta Schools Centenary 1873-1973” compiled by R Belling, RJ Davies, and DAT Henderson
    Records compiled by Michelle Maddison [Museum of the Riverina]
    B2455 3467994 CROSBY D [National Archives of Australia]
    B2455 3071560 BELLING A B [National Archives of Australia]

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  • The Tarcutta Memorial Soldiers' Hall

    The Tarcutta Memorial Soldiers' Hall
    Apr 23 2021
    'But it seems that the people of Tarcutta found they could not carry out fundraising for a hall without a hall'

    A brief insight into the beginnings of the Tarcutta Soldiers' Memorial Hall and the community's trials and tribulations in getting it built.

    The opening poem is by Tarcutta resident Rhonda Shoemark

    References:
    Wagga Wagga Advertiser
    Adelong and Tumut Express
    The Daily Advertiser
    RW97 Kyeamba Shire Council Collection [Charles Sturt University Regional Archives]

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