13 May 2024

Balts at Bangham (1948-49): Photographs, by Ann Tündern-Smith and Tatyana Tamm

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Updated 26 May 2024. Tatyana Tamm kindly has supplied a number of photographs of the Displaced Persons sent to work at Bangham, South Austra...
07 May 2024

More about Flaavi Hodunov (1927-2023): SAR Train Driver by Tatyana Tamm

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Flaavi Hodunov was born in Estonia in 1927. He was passenger 201 on the General Stuart Heintzelman , the first ship to bring displaced pers...
24 April 2024

Ksaveras Antanaitis (1911-1948), An Earlier Work-related Death, by Rasa Ščevinskienė

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Even before Miervaldis Indriksons was killed by a workplace accident in South Australia ( see previous entry ) another First Transport man ...
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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