Hospitalised for 11 months, Hunt had at least two more operations to remove painful nerve endings from his stump. Charles Pepper enlisted in June , aged In August , shortly after landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula with the 4th Battalion, he was hospitalised with shell-shock. Married with a wife and two young sons to support, Charles brought his family to Bankstown Settlement in September but vacated in March Ernest Henry Willsher took over Pepper's block later that same month.
An electrician from Newtown, he had enlisted in June and was discharged in September With six children to support, he was desperate to receive an offer of a soldier-settlement block. Ernest was 44 when he came to Bankstown and suffering the after-effects of malaria contracted in Egypt, so making ends meet would have been a constant struggle for the Willsher family. Willsher abandoned the holding in October , when he was unable to pay the instalment due on the property.
Baker was employed as a proofreader for the Sydney Daily Telegraph before the war. Evacuated to Mudros and then to Epsom Hospital in England, he was returned to Australia and discharged medically unfit in March Baker spent the winter living under canvas on site, along with other discharged servicemen.
Robert Baker and his family lived on the settlement for six years, but forfeited in August for non-payment of rents. The voices of those women and children who lived on soldier settlements remain largely lost. One snippet from August reveals that settler Samuel Murphy was concerned about the women's situation, stating they 'had played the game during the perilous days of the war' but now their health was being affected by the worries of an uncertain future. Samuel could not afford to take his wife for a day out to Sydney, even though she had not left the settlement for seven months.
While these stories about Bankstown Soldier Settlement are largely of failure, some settlers stayed for more than 10 years. Thomas Buckley and his family came to Bankstown in July and left in April His wife wrote to the Department of Lands in February seeking relief from the constant reminders of overdue payments and reassuring officialdom that they were hard-working battlers.
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Paragraphs Paragraph operations are made directly in the full article text panel located to the left. It is a part of the South-western Sydney region. Yagoona, New South Wales. Dulwich Hill, a suburb of the Marrickville local government area, is located seven kilometres south-west of Sydney. The traditional owners of the land were Cadigal of the Eora nation. The traditional owners of the land are Gadigal people of the Eora Nation.
The Aboriginal name for the area is Bulanaming. Worimi Ngani? Doing something silly! It expresses that Aboriginal people have been there from the beginning of time.
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