First Transport to Australia
15 April 2025
"General Stuart Heintzelman" men to Maydena, Tasmania, by Ann Tündern-Smith
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The first mill in the world to produce newsprint from eucalyptus hardwood was opened in the Tasmanian town of Boyer by Australian Newsprint ...
10 April 2025
Jonas Jakaitis (1919-2010), Australian Citizen, by Ann Tündern-Smith and Rasa Ščevinskienė
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Jonas Jakaitis was one of the 62 men from the First Transport , General Stuart Heintzelman , sent to Bangham in South Australia to work for...
08 April 2025
Alfonsas Sadauskas (1916-1990), my father, by Vidas Sadauskas
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Updated 22-23 April, 31 July and 5 August 2025. Young Alfonsas Alfonsas was born on 26 September 1916 in Vabalninkas village in Biržai distr...
07 April 2025
40 years since the arrival of the First Transport, by Antanas Laukaitis
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[This tribute, in Lithuanian, was published on page 7 of the Australian-Lithuanian newspaper, Mūsų Pastogė (Our Haven) on 9 November 1987.]...
05 April 2025
A distant, little-known land, by Viktoras Baltutis
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This is the introduction to an unpublished eulogy prepared by Viktoras Baltutis for Vilius Janonis, a First Transport passenger who died in ...
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