Thread: Bush Tucker Man on You Tube

Originally Posted by Hogarthde

Agree Spudfan, no dramas or self induced mini tragedies , and as you say Landies 👍

Quite an enterprising bloke Les Hiddens; he set up a “ veterans retreat “ on a cattle station near the Normandy River Cape York. Wonder if it is still going?

Normandy or Normanby?

We met Lord Normanby some years ago on Bedarra Island. Dcd now I believe.
His family sailed with Cook (well, maybe not all of them ) & there are a number of Islands,Rivers etc bearing their name in the North of Oz.



My Geezer. NB. When a POW he taught Braille to banged up POWs .

Oswald Phipps, 4th Marquess of Normanby - Wikipedia



Biography - second Marquess of Normanby - Australian Dictionary of Biography

A story. In conversation he mentioned the size of his digs & swambo mentioned this to someone who knew him from the UK & commented it woud have been a bugger to heat in Yorkshire, & was quietly told that he owned a couple of Coal Mines.

We stumbled across an Australian War Grave in the local cemetery (in Yorkshire) & for some years wondered about it as you do. It just seemed a bit odd.

After meeting him we asked about it. Turns out his Nephew/Cousin (?) was in Australia when WW1 was declared & signed up with the Australian Army. He was killed in France & they had his remains taken back to the UK where he was interred by the wall of the church where we saw his grave. A Mystery no more.


Apologies Dave for going off topic.

Originally Posted by gromit

I have all the DVD's and also Stories of Survival, if you have a DVD player I can 'loan' you a set.

I watched them in the UK before coming out here in the late 90's, then ended up buying a Defender Tanami soon after arriving !

Colin

Thanks for the loan offer, appreciate it.
They'll turn up soon, I'm mid move and have all my stuff in storage, They'll turn up soon (I hope)