Gilbert Eustace TELFER

Family

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Birth

Given Name(s): Gilbert Eustace

Last Name: TELFER

Birth Date: 1913, December 12

Gender: M

Father: Edwin Gilbert TELFER

Mother: Ellen NEED

Birth Place/Residence: Hawker

District: Frome

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Book/Page: 926/404

Death

Given Name(s): Gilbert Eustace (Bert)

Surname: TELFER

Death Date: 1995, August 30

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Publication Date: 1995, August 31

Publication: Advertiser

About TELFER, Gilbert Eustace (Bert)

Bert Telfer, a digger who served with the AIF in North Africa. Bert brought his wife Edna and their sons Donald, 5 and Peter, 7, to the island in 1957. While the ex-servicemen worked in rotation clearing each other's land, they lived with their families in buildings from a prisoner-of-war camp for Italians in Loveday, on the Murray River in SA, which had been dismantled and reassembled in Parndana.

Now 73, Bert sold his property in 1984 for $320,000. He was one of the luckier ones. For many reasons - bad luck, bad judgment, bad management or a bit of all three - many soldier settlers never made a go of it, wound up way over their heads in debt and, in one of the sorriest chapters in modern Australian history, were evicted from their properties.

- Australian Geographic, 2008 http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/travel/destinations/2010/06/a-look-back-at-kangaroo-island