First Transport to Australia

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...

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...

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...

Updated 5 April, 12 May and 26 October 2024. Estonian-born Flaavi Hodunov was another of the 18 with good English selected at the Bangham ca...