Alfred Clyde Allen : SUMMARY RECORD [PRG 673] • Photograph
Alfred Clyde Allen : SUMMARY RECORD
Home of police constable Ward, White Cliffs, ca.1905
Alfred Clyde Allen : SUMMARY RECORD
A camp of Afghans and Aborigines at Powell Selection, a pastoral property on the Tibboburra to Queensland run. The men are believed to have been stockmen. ca.1908
Alfred Clyde Allen : SUMMARY RECORD
Death notice of Lingwood-Smith's daughter. Lingwood-Smith was an outback parson
Alfred Clyde Allen : SUMMARY RECORD
John Davis Allen (1893-1968) at the diggings at Coober Pedy. J.D. Allen was Clyde's eldest brother
Alfred Clyde Allen : SUMMARY RECORD
Dan Jilks, bullock driver, White Cliffs to Wilcannia run. ca.1912
Alfred Clyde Allen : SUMMARY RECORD
Unnamed mother child, pictured in the mouth of a dugout at White Cliffs
Alfred Clyde Allen : SUMMARY RECORD
Alfred Clyde Allen, ca.1901, about 6 years of age, had just commenced school at White Cliffs
Alfred Clyde Allen : SUMMARY RECORD
Alfred Clyde Allen, ca.1906, about 11-12 years. Note Queen Victoria medal issued to school children in 1900
Alfred Clyde Allen : SUMMARY RECORD
Mrs Alf Richardson, publican's daughter of one of the largest hotels in White Cliffs
Alfred Clyde Allen : SUMMARY RECORD
Alfred Clyde Allen, ca.1901, about 6 years of age, had just commenced school at White Cliffs
Alfred Clyde Allen : SUMMARY RECORD
Philip Howard Page, ca.1920 - enlisted in WWI with Clyde Allen. Used to catch hares around Glen Osmond with a couple of small dogs
Alfred Clyde Allen : SUMMARY RECORD
Bill Leckie, pastoralist's son
Alfred Clyde Allen : SUMMARY RECORD
Philip Howard Page, ca.1920 (see also #12)
Alfred Clyde Allen : SUMMARY RECORD
Annie (Clyde's eldest sister) holding her eldest child (Ellen [Chaplin], born 1916) on the veranda of the Allen family home at Glen Osmond on the corner of Wattle Street and Glen Osmond Road. [In 1980s the site was a service station.]
Alfred Clyde Allen : SUMMARY RECORD
Ted Mooring, bullock teamster and his wife outside their house built on one of the selection blocks outside White Cliffs. Note building materials - corrugated iron walls and leaves used as roofing for coolness (known as a 'bough roof - taken form boughs of trees.]
Alfred Clyde Allen : SUMMARY RECORD
Man standing outside a tent at Coober Pedy at foot of 'Lookout Hill'. Lookout Hill was so named because miners used to see if camels, carting water, were approaching. Camels used to carry the water approximately 45 miles to Coober Pedy, ca,1915
Alfred Clyde Allen : SUMMARY RECORD
Clyde Allen, aged about 20, before he went to war. ca.1915
Alfred Clyde Allen : SUMMARY RECORD
Camel team carting water to Coober Pedy ca.1915. [Note: the opal diggings were founded at Coober Pedy in 914 at the end of 1914, and the Allen family (including Clyde) moved there in 1915. Clyde stayed only three months before enlisting.]
Alfred Clyde Allen : SUMMARY RECORD
Clyde's father (John David Allen) assembled this group to go to Coober Pedy to evaluate the opal field in 1915. From left: Clyde Allen, Fitzgerald (chemist, and Winch's son, but changed his name to Fitzgerald), Winch (chemist), Herb Pierce (ex-policeman turned opal miner, also brother-in-law of the Secretary of the opal prospecting company which sent this group to Coober Pedy), Tassie O'Connor (gold prospector from W.A.)
Alfred Clyde Allen : SUMMARY RECORD
First stand pipe at White Cliffs. residents of White Cliffs filled their tanks from this pipe, with the water coming from this reservoir until the dam was built
Alfred Clyde Allen : SUMMARY RECORD
Maude Larkin, daughter of Ted Larkin, publican of the Bunker Hotel, 12 miles out of White Cliffs, ca.1910
Alfred Clyde Allen : SUMMARY RECORD
Children playing (racing?) at White Cliffs.