First Transport to Australia

Updated 16 December 2024 Hugo Jakobsen obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Diploma of Education soon after coming to Australia as a ref...

Like the ill-fated Ksaveras Antanaitis , Antanas Staugaitis was one of the Lithuanian Displaced Persons or DPs selected in Germany to travel...

Updated 18 July 2024 We've met Artur Klaar already as the fellow Estonian who befriended Flaavi Hodunov in Peterborough.  It's poss...

Flaavi Hodunov was born in Estonia in 1927. He was passenger 201 on the General Stuart Heintzelman , the first ship to bring displaced pers...

John Mannion has told us already that 17 or 18 men from the First Transport were selected to train in Peterborough, South Australia, as ra...