We received another wonderful ‘recollection’ from the son of a soldier settler. This account is by Kelvin Dagg about his father Roy Edward Dagg. Read Kelvin’s account: If you’d like to send in information and/or photos of relatives listed in the Soldier Settler Case Studies please contact us.
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Since our previous post we have received another ‘recollection’ from the son of a Soldier Settler. This account is by Marjorie Myers about her father Walter Arnold Davis. Read her story If you’d like to send in information and/or photos of relatives listed in the Soldier Settler Case Studies please contact us.
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In our last post we invited you to send in information and/or photos of relatives listed in the Soldier Settler Case Studies. We received some photos and a wonderful recollection of life on a property at Pappinbarra Creek from Tony Ostler, a son of the soldier settler, Ernest Ostler. Read his story
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We have been busy adding more case studies to the website with the total now over 140. The case studies are compiled from a variety of sources including State Records of New South Wales and the returned soldiers’ digitised records held by the National Archives of Australia. There were over 9000 soldier settlers in New South Wales and this tiny […]
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‘A Land Fit for Heroes?’ is a website dedicated to the memory of Soldier Settlement in NSW. The colours used in this website, the rich browns, reds and oranges reflect the colours of rural NSW. This is the colour of the dust that blew across eastern Australia in September 2009.
It is the same earth that soldier settlers farmed.