by Kathryn Spurling | Apr 30, 2022 | Blogs - Kathryn Spurling
Victor Charles Friberg was born to Anders and Amelia Friberg of ‘Mootala’, Locksley Road, Ivanhoe, Melbourne, Victoria. The family enjoyed a stable middle-class lifestyle thanks to the furniture manufacturing business Anders had established. Victor entered the family...
by Kathryn Spurling | Apr 24, 2022 | Blogs - Kathryn Spurling
It was a Midshipmen and Cadet Mess Dinner at the Australian Defence Force Academy in the late 1990s. I was teaching History and Strategic Studies at UNSW at ADFA so was asked to attend as a guest with my husband. These mess dinners were to instruct aspiring Australian...
by Kathryn Spurling | Apr 17, 2022 | Blogs - Kathryn Spurling
It was in the blood, the military heritage thing. She had been raised on the stories; khaki uniforms had filled her home. Her father was born in Ireland in 1876 with the grand name of Harry Lort Spencer Balfour-Ogilvy. From a very prominent Renmark family he was a...
by Kathryn Spurling | Feb 23, 2022 | Blogs - Kathryn Spurling
It all started with a rather beaten up discarded painting. It was a brown pen and ink painting of a mine shaft, with the signature W.Carter 1979. No one in the auction paid any interest but history attracts historians. What was more architectural artworks are complex...
by Kathryn Spurling | Feb 10, 2022 | Blogs - Kathryn Spurling
On 30 December 1911 the Australian Government advertised for ‘two competent mechanics and aviators’ to be appointed to the Department of Defence. One of the requirements was for the applicants to advise if they were married or single perhaps an indication as to the...
