Dreadnought Association further records, 1944-[2010?]

MLMSS 10166

fonds

1944-[2010?]

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs

9614576

0.32 metres of textual material (2 boxes), includes photographs

The Dreadnought Youth Immigration Scheme was the name of an initiative that came about as the result of an agreement of the Trustees of the Dreadnought Fund with the Government of New South Wales. The immigration scheme was designed to promote and assist the migration of British boys between the ages of 16 and 19 to training farms in NSW.

The first group of Dreadnought Boys arrived in 1911. Dreadnought Boys were sent to government run farms at Yanco, Cowra, Arrawatta, Glen Innes, Grafton, and Wollongbar. More than half the migrants went to Scheyville near Pitt Town. The Dreadnought scheme was halted during the First World War, and resumed in 1921. In 1930 migration to New South Wales was stopped because of the Depression, and the scheme ceased in 1939.

In 1974 a Dreadnought Boy named Ray Moores advertised in newspapers, calling for a reunion of boys who had come to Australia aboard the same ship. From these beginnings the Dreadnought Association grew. Over the years about 350 Dreadnought Boys have been in touch with the Association, which was wound up in 2018.

References:
The Dreadnought Scheme, NAA Research Guide.
Library correspondence file

Records of the Dreadnought Association including newsletters and minutes of meetings, and oral history transcripts, notes and correspondence, relating to the personal histories of Dreadnought Boys. Also included are photographs mainly relating to Association reunions.

The collection was compiled in the course of preparing for the publication of two books: 'They passed this way: stories of the Dreadnought boys / edited by Gordon King and Olwen King. (2nd edition, 2008), and 'These also came: more stories of the Dreadnought boys' / Olwen King (2011)

BOX 1
Dreadnought Association newsletters (Sydney), March 1980-May 1999 [incomplete];
Correspondence and newscuttings, 1983-2010
Publications including 'The Boy Settler', a publication sent to Dreadnought boys by the Empire Services Club, February 1944
Personal histories of individual Dreadnought Boys: A-K

BOX 2
Personal histories of individual Dreadnought Boys: L-W
Photographs (42) of Dreadnought Association members at reunions, [ca. 1997-1999]

Personal histories of individual Dreadnought boys arranged alphabetically by surname

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