A Land Fit for Heroes?

A History of Soldier Settlement in New South Wales, 1916-1939

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  • About the project
    • Bruce Scates
    • Christine Yeats
    • Melanie Oppenheimer
    • Selena Williams
  • An ARC Linkage Project
  • Case Studies
    • ABBOTT, Albert Jarvis
    • ADAMS, Alan Cecil
    • ALLAN, Edward John
    • ALLUM, Ernest James
    • ARKINSTALL, Thomas Frank
    • ASH, Walter
    • BACON, Gerald Horace
    • BAILEY, Percy
    • BARBER, John George Hewson
    • BARTON, Edward Hugh
    • BAXTER, Aubrey Longfield
    • BEDFORD, Percaval Page
    • BELLAMY, William Robert George
    • BELLING, Arthur Bertram
      • Growing up on a soldier settlement block in the 1920s and 30s - Hugh Belling
    • BENN, Frank
    • BENNETT, James
    • BENTLEY, John Thomas
    • BERGELIN, Rupert Wilhelm
    • BIRD, Harry
    • BLAIR, John Sloan
    • BLOMFIELD, Arthur Stewart
    • BOWKER, George Bradley
    • BOYLAN, Charles
    • BRADY, Charles Edward
    • BRAGG, James Buller
    • BRAMLEY, Edward
    • BRENNAN, William Michael
    • BRENTNALL, Trevor Mort
    • BREWER, Charles Harold
    • BROWN, William Charles Angus
    • BUTFIELD, George
    • BYRNE, Charles Robert
    • CAIRNS, Agnes Martha
    • CAMERON, Charles McDonald
    • CAMERON, Elizabeth
    • CARR, Wilfred Daniel
    • CARTER, John
    • CHURCHER, Ernest Henry
    • COLE, Cecil Frank
    • COLE, Charles Thomas
    • COLLIS, Francis Henry
    • COOPER, Keith Ashley

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Welcome!

‘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.
Red Dust Bridge. Image by Ian Sanderson. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
It is the same earth that soldier settlers farmed.

  • Updates

    • Suicide – it was all too much!
    • Your story, your life and your difficulties should never be forgotten. Rest in Peace now Paddy Boylan
    • Arthur Campbell Robinson – Mullumbimby Soldier Settlement
    • Index to Returned Soldiers Loan files now online
    • Keeping the home fires burning!
  • Project Partners

    • Australian Research Council
    • Department of Veterans’ Affairs
    • Monash University
    • State Records NSW
    • University of New England
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