Australia

I was not quite six when war broke out. I lived with my parents, Ted and Queenie Evans, my older sister Shirley, and (from 1942) my younger sister Kaye, behind the H.L. Jones Beegoods Factory opposite the Goodna Railway Station. In the cottage beside us lived my Grandmother Jones, my aunt Audrey Jones, and Miss

I was born in 1927 in a Railway house at Wacol (then Wolston), the youngest of six children. Dr. Moray, a woman doctor from the Wolston Park hospital, delivered me. My father was the local Ganger—responsible for maintenance of the railway line from Darra to Goodna. He was from Roma, and my mother was from

Darra Before the WarBoth my parents were of Irish extraction, from families who came to Ipswich (which was then expected to become the capital of Queensland) and then to Grandchester in the mid-1800s. Both were born here—Father in 1878, Mother in 1893. I was born in 1923, at St Mary’s Hospital in Ipswich, and my

My father, Bill Eason, was born in Highgate Hill in 1886. Mother was born in England in 1890 and came out in 1909. They met and married in 1911. My father and his brother Len took the train from Indooroopilly to look at land in Darra in 1914, when the first advertisements for town blocks

Pino in 1939 I was fourteen when war was declared. I was attending Central Tech three days a week, studying architecture. I would ride my bike the three miles (5 km) from Richlands to Darra, put it under the Station Master’s house, take the train to Brisbane, then walk to the Tech (now QUT). Even

ParadeMy grandfather Robert Burke Sparrow was from Sandgate. He worked at the Ipswich Railway Workshops, and he bought land for a “hobby farm” in Richlands from the Dynes about 1910. He retired there to his poultry farm on Archerfield Road. Dad (Howard Sparrow) was born in 1904, and he worked with my grandfather on the

Memories From The War Years The Reed family arrived from England in 1928 and settled in Richlands in 1931. Milly, the elder daughter, provided these anecdotes for the book Richlands State School – 60th Anniversary 1934-1994, which was written and produced by Ric Formigoni, a teacher and former pupil at the school. Service Industries (P63

Early DaysMy family, parents, and two brothers arrived from England in about 1926; my mother had two sisters here already. I was born in Beaudesert on 27 February 1927, and my sister was born two years later. Dad couldn’t get work as a jeweller here, so he bought a truck; he had been in transport

Richlands, at the time of the arrival of the Americans, was a small ‘pocket of farms to the south of Darra, with about seventy-five homes and farms, many empty blocks, and only one access road—Archerfield Road to Darra. I was one of the first babies born in Richlands Estate, and I was five when war