Edward Robert Mitchell Robertson reminiscences and thoughts, 1979

MLMSS 3583

fonds

1979

918564

1 box of textual material

Edward Robertson was born at Croydon, Queensland in 1905. He left school at the age of fourteen to work as a stockman on a property in Western Queensland. He subsequently held a variety of positions including drover, fence-builder and dairyman. He wrote a number of bush poems, some of which have been published in newspapers and magazines. In 1933, he joined the Communist Party and remained a member for most of his life

Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (8-662C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011