Showing posts with label SAR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SAR. Show all posts
21 May 2024

Artur Klaar (1919-1970): Economics student, accountant, Estonian

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

Miervaldis Indriksons (1918-1948): Fatal Workplace Accident by Ann Tündern-Smith

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We have learned already that Miervaldis Indriksons was killed by a workplace accident at Naracoorte, South Australia, while working as dire...
21 April 2024

Naming the 62 Balts to Bangham (1948-49) by Ann Tündern-Smith

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Updated 10 April 2025. The 62 Baltic refugees sent to Bangham via Wolseley in South Australia from the First Transport via Bonegilla were n...
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20 April 2024

Balts at Bangham (1948-49) Part 2, by Ann Tündern-Smith

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We previously  have  looked at the work which the 62 men sent to Bangham, South Australia , for the State’s Railways (SAR) Commission were e...
19 April 2024

Balts at Bangham (1948-49), Part 1 by Ann Tündern-Smith

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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...
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16 April 2024

Girts Broders (1923-2006): Industrialist’s Son to Company Manager by Ann Tündern-Smith

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Girts Broders was chosen in the Bonegilla camp to lead a band of men sent to the South Australian Railways at Wolseley because of his excell...