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Grave stone of Alexander George Warrick [B 74511] • Photograph

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Summary

View of the grave stone of Alexander George Warrick, identified on the back of the photo as 'the grave behind shearing shed near track to 3 mile well'. According to a later resident at Wirraminna Station, 'Alexander (the great) was the Manager of Wirraminna when he died and was apparently a very popular man. The station hands were complaing that the water was unfit from a particular source to drink and of course he said rubbish you little pussycats, drank it and died'. A death notice in the 'South Australian Register', Saturday, April 15, 1882, reads 'WARICK.- On the 5th April, at Green's Station, West Port Augusta, of dysentery, Alexander George Warwick, aged 36 years'.

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Physical description

1 photograph : black and white ; 6.2 x 8.9 cm

Dates / Publication details

1946

Photographer

Reeve, Paul

Collection

Part of Wirraminna Collection

Subject

Warick, Alexander George
Sepulchral monuments -- South Australia

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Historical information

This is one a set of 14 photographs sent by amateur photographer, Paul Reeve, to the manager at Wirraminna Station. (Wirraminna Station is a cattle station on the Stuart Highway, near Lake Hart and Lake Gairdner in the north of South Australia.) The covering letter reads (in part) 'Dear Sir, I don't know you and you probably don't know me, but I worked on the station from early 1940 until September 1941 when I left to join the A.I.F. After a stint in the Middle East and P.N.G.I returned to Wirraminna where I stayed another six months. Dick Jenkins was the Manager and I was the Overseer. It was just after the war and labour was hard to get. ... The enclosed photos may be of interest to you.' An obituary for Paul Reeve appeared in 'The Advertiser', Saturday, August 25, 2007, page 38. An obituary for Paul Reeve appeared in 'The Advertiser', Saturday, August 25, 2007, page 38.

Digitisation information

Date

07/10/2015

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

6,029 x 4,394 pixels (26.5 MP)

Size

79.50 MB

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