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Lone schoolboy fell from train in the middle of the night

1919 – Unaccompanied schoolboy Howard Tidbury was taking the overnight train home to Blackall for Christmas in mid-December. He was 11 or 12 years of age. He was boarding at Rockhampton’s Sisters of Mercy Convent’s school for boys. The school’s sister-in-charge had asked Mary Hole, the mother of four other students, who was also travelling onContinue reading “Lone schoolboy fell from train in the middle of the night”