Gilbert Eustace TELFER
Service Number: SX3904
Enlisted: 29 May 1940, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank: Corporal
Last Unit: 27th Infantry Battalion
Born: Hawker, SA, 12 December 1913
Home Town: Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia
Memorials: Hawker District WW2 Roll of Honour, Hawker War Memorial Park, Parndana Kangaroo Island Ex-Servicemen Land Settlers 1939-1945 Roll
29 May 1940: Involvement Corporal, SN SX3904, 27th Infantry Battalion
29 May 1940: Enlisted Adelaide, SA
27 Nov 1945: Discharged
Item details for: B883, SX3904
National Archives Australia
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
Age:
Publication Date: 1995, August 31
Publication: Advertiser
Burial
Kingscote Cemetery
TELFER, Gilbert Eustace (Bert), 12.12.1913 - 13.8.1995, husband of Edna, father of Peter and Donald
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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
Gilbert Eustace (Bert) / Edna TELFER SX3904 2/27th Inf Batt Hawker 12 Dec 1913 / Adelaide ? / 30 Aug 1995 Gosse 26