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Simon Fahey Porter was a 28 year old teacher who loved poetry when he enlisted in WW1.
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Episode 118 - Isabella Renshaw
On 24 October 1831, Isabella and her sister Rosannah were convicted of housebreaking and aged just 19 and 17, were sentenced to transportation for seven years to Van Dieman's Land.
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Episode 117 - The Radnells from Tarnagulla
The Radnells were a large family of 14 from Tarnagulla Victoria. Two of their sons fought in WW1 - neither came home. The youngest son, George was only 16 when he enlisted, his father stated he was 18 years and 5 months old to sign him up.
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Episode 116 - Pilot Dicken
Michael Perry Stowell Dicken died whilst on a RAAF training flight over Mildura Victoria on the 17th August 1943, aged only 20. His sweetheart, who he met whilst in training in Deniliquin NSW, attended the erection of a memorial plaque in 2004 - 61 years later.
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Episode 115 - Mrs Mort
In December 1920 in Sydney, Claude John Tozer, an unmarried doctor was having an affair with a 32 year old married woman, Mrs Dorothy Mort, who was his patient. Dorothy murdered Claude.
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