Will H. Ogilvie was a Scottish-Australian narrative poet and horseman, jackaroo, and drover, and described as a quiet-spoken handsome Scot of medium height, with a fair moustache and red complexion. He was also known as Will Ogilvie, by the pen names including 'Glenrowan' and the lesser 'Swingle-Bar', and by his initials, WHO.
Lake Albert, also known by its Ngarrindjeri name, Yarli, is a notionally fresh water lake near the mouth of the Murray River in South Australia. It is filled by water flowing in from the larger Lake Alexandrina at its mouth near Narrung. It is separated on the south by the Narrung Peninsula from the salt-water Coorong. The only major town on the lake is Meningie. Lakes Alexandrina and Albert are together known as the Lower Lakes.
Laura is a rural town in the Mid North region of South Australia, 12 km north of Gladstone on the Horrocks Highway and 40 km east of Port Pirie. The first European to explore the district was Thomas Burr in September 1842. His promising reports soon led to occupation of the district by pastoralists, one of whom was Herbert Bristow Hughes. When the present town was surveyed he named it for his wife, Laura née White.
George Edwin Yates, often referred to as Gunner Yates, was an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1914 to 1919 and from 1922 to 1931, representing the electorate of Adelaide.
Sir George Coutts Ligertwood (1888–1967), commonly referred to as G. C. Ligertwood, was a Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia.
Daniel Michael Paul Cudmore was a pastoralist in the early days of South Australia and the founder of a family highly influential in that and other States, especially Queensland.
The Bowman brothers were pioneer pastoralists of Tasmania and South Australia. They were the sons of John Bowman : Edmund Bowman, John Bowman, William Charles Bowman and Thomas Richard Bowman.
George Alfred John Webb was an English painter who had a considerable career in Australia painting portraits of South Australian and Victorian public figures. In correspondence, he signed his name "George A. J. Webb"; many of his paintings, but not all, were signed simply "WEBB".
Sir Charles Henry Goode was a British Australian merchant, businessman, politician and philanthropist in the early days South Australia. He founded Goode, Durrant and Company in 1882.
William Harold Oliver was an Australian rules footballer. Harold Oliver was a key player to some of South Australian football's most successful teams. He starred in South Australia's victorious 1911 Australian football championship along with Port Adelaide's 1914 "Invincible's" team. After being close to retiring from the game after World War I he returned to captain both Port Adelaide to the 1921 SAFL premiership and South Australia in a game against Western Australia. His reputation as an early exponent of the spectacular mark along with his general skill at playing the game saw him regarded as one of the best players South Australia has produced.
Mulka Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the far north of South Australia.
Pilgrim Uniting Church is a church of the Uniting Church in Australia on Flinders Street, Adelaide, South Australia.
Robert Esmond George was an Australian theatre actor and director, but mostly remembered as a watercolor artist and art critic. His wife, professionally known as Elizabeth George, was a well-known journalist.
Dingabledinga is a locality in the southern Mount Lofty Ranges of South Australia. It is on the ridge southeast of McLaren Vale and south of Adelaide. The name is supposed to be derived from an Aboriginal name meaning "water everywhere".
The Cheer-Up Society was a South Australian patriotic organisation founded during The Great War, whose aims were provision of creature comforts for soldiers in South Australia. Much of their activity was centred on the Cheer-up Hut, which they built behind the Adelaide railway station, and almost entirely staffed and organised by volunteers.
John William Louis Yemm, known as Louis W. Yemm, was an organist in South Australia who had a long association with patriotic causes, notably Cheer-Up Society and their Violet Memory Day.
South Australian Literary Societies' Union (1883–1926) was a peak or advocacy organization of literary societies in South Australia. It organised competitions between the member societies and established a "Union Parliament" to debate issues of the day. In 1932 a similar organization named Literary Societies' Union of South Australia was founded.
Sydney Talbot Smith OBE was a lawyer and journalist in the colony and State of South Australia.
Sir Constantine Trent Champion de Crespigny,, generally referred to as C. T. C. de Crespigny or Sir Trent de Crespigny or Trent Champion de Crespigny, was a medical doctor, clinical pathologist, academic and hospital administrator in Adelaide, South Australia.
Harold Dalton Hall was a South Australian amateur artist noted for marine subjects. A lasting example of his work is the model cast in bronze of HMS Buffalo atop the Centenary memorial, Moseley Square, Glenelg, in South Australia. He was referred to as "Dalton–Hall" in his death notices, but rarely elsewhere; he signed his paintings "H. D. Hall".
