People
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Retrieval – what was salvaged from the cargo of the Walter Hood?
As shipping agents and owners are not in the business of salvage, the wreck of the Walter Hood itself was…
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Error and Trial – wreckage and the tattletale crimson shirt
So what did happen to all the wreckage from the Walter Hood that was taken from the beach by local scavengers? By…
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Respect renewed – locals honour the Walter Hood victims
By the 1920s, the original Walter Hood graves had gone through several bushfires, severely damaging the inscribed slabs, and the high tide…
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Mutiny and Murder? – what really became of Captain Latto?
At the dedication of the Walter Hood memorial cairn near Wreck Bay in 1927, which took place 57 years after the wreck,…
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Walter Hood resources and historiography – what’s true and what’s not
In compiling this historical account of the wrecking of the Walter Hood on 26 April 1870 to commemorate its 150th…
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Sarah Claydon – midwife, nurse and friend to all
Sickness was the true scourge of the pioneers, with diphtheria, convulsions, scarlet fever and measles often causing the deaths of…
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A Milton ‘institution’, Matron Gwenda Porter
Gwenda Porter arrived in Milton by bus in 1940 and was said to have told the bus driver that she…
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A ‘hobo’ life in Milton
I was born in 1945 at the Old Milton Hospital from where my parents Leila and Elwyn (‘Tiger’) Anderson took…
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Milton’s ‘Angel of Mercy’, Sister Kitty Porter
Australian nurses served with great distinction during World War 1. Although they were often initially not welcomed by officers who…