by admin | Sep 6, 2023 | Our Stories
MOUNT GAMBIER – 160 ·YEARS OF PERMANENT SETTLEMENT Thursday, 10th May, 2007, saw the marking of 160th year of permanent European settlement In Mount Gambier. On the 10th May 1847, His Excellency Frederick Holt Robe, the Governor of South Australia signed the...
by admin | Sep 6, 2023 | Local History, Our Collection, Our Stories
Herbert Hector Ashby DCM, OAM 12th Oct 1921 – 8th Feb 2009 Herb Ashby, a humble war, hero and ‘Rat of Tobruk’, died in Adelaide aged 87. His life was full and he always had a story to tell. Herb enlisted in the army in July 1940 aged 18. The age he...
by admin | Aug 28, 2023 | Our Stories
Lawrence Allen “Larry” Wells (30th April 1860 – 11th May 1938) was born at Yallum Stationnear Penola and was the son of squatter Thomas Allen Wells and his wife Isabella Elizabeth (née Kelsh). He grew up the Mount Gambier district and he moved with his family to Yahl,...
by admin | Aug 28, 2023 | Our Stories
CROUCH William Allenborn: 21 December 1821, St Pancras, Middlesex, England, United Kingdomdied: 6 October 1899, Lowan, Kalangadoo, South Australia, Australia Parents: Edmund Allen Crouch and Matilda Jane GreenSiblings: Edmund Robert, Matilda Jane,...
by admin | Aug 28, 2023 | Our Stories
LEACH Gladys Gwen nee BuckBorn: 24 May 1919 Mount Gambier, South AustraliaDied: 9 March 1945 Mount Gambier, South Australia Parents: John Edward Heinrich Buck, Elsie Adelaide AtkinSiblings: Violet Jean, Peter Edward Thomas Henry. Gwen as she was known, grew up in the...
