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Interviewees include:
Wilfred Bennett
Sidney Black
Arthur Brawn
William Charlton
Robert Dodsley
Denis Gavaghan 
Ronald Gibson
Bernard Havinden
Sidney Hollis
William Jordan
Charles Langburne
John McMahon
Norman Monsen
S.C. Moulds
Arthur Page
Denys Pollard
Harold Rawson
Robert Taylor
George Veitch
Lawrence Waterhouse
William Wilson

Dreadnought Boys interviewed by Geoffrey Sherington, 1983

Letters, petitions and plans collected by Sir William Dixson, relating to the Presbyterian Church in Australia, including material relating to the emigration of agricultural labourers, the extension of Clarence Street in Sydney, and the establishment and administration of churches in Sydney, St Kilda and Geelong, 1831-1848

A presentation album (36 pages) of brown leather stamped on edges and spine with gold leaf decoration containing 55 photographs of the inhabitants of the Coolangatta Estate.  Images include group portraits of male workers, families, children, women, women and children, and household staff.  One group portrait, possibly of members of the Hay family, is taken in front of “Coolangatta”.

The album contains group portraits of Aboriginal workers and families (including the Adler [i.e. Ardler] family, Gottlieb Adler, Mary Ann Dixon and Rosanna Adler), and Aboriginal workers appear in the group portraits of men.  Photographs of the ships ‘Brinawarr’ and ‘Coomonderry’ appear in the album.

Photographic album of the employees and inhabitants of the Coolangatta Estate, Shoalhaven River, N.S.W. / presented to John Hay, Esq., by his employees, November 1891

Photograph album of the employees and inhabitants of the Coolangatta Estate, Shoalhaven River, N.S.W. / presented to John Hay, Esq., by his employees, November 1891

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]

Dreadnought Association further records, 1944-[2010?]

Daily record of farm work at Camden Park, 5 April 1880 to 22 July 1881, November 1888 to December 1888. Includes surnames of employees and brief description of work carried out.

Volume 82: Camden Park farm work, April 1880-July 1881, November-December 1888

Item 01: Dreadnought Fund cash account 21 March 1909-31 December 1919
A 4987

Item 02: Minute book, 12 May 1910-24 March 1924
A 4988

Item 03: Minute book, 31 March 1924-2 September 1930
A 4989

Item 04: Register of ships bringing boys 1911-1930
A 4990 (CY 1165, frames 604-623)

Item 05: Register of boys 13 September 1912-July 1914
A 4991 (CY 1165, frames 211-275)

Item 06: Register of boys 3 September 1921-11 August 1926
A 4992 (CY 1165, frames 276-463)

Item 07: Register of boys 11 August 1926-9 September 1939
A 4993 (CY 1165, frames 464-603)

Item 08: Index to names of boys n.d.-31 December 1925
A 4994 (CY 1165, frames 1-99)

Item 09: Index to names of boys 1 January 1926-December 1939
A 4995 (CY 1165, frames 100-210)

The last volume is stated to be not quite complete

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Dreadnought Boys interviewed by Geoffrey Sherington, 1983

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Letters, petitions and plans collected by Sir William Dixson, relating to the Presbyterian Church in Australia, including material relating to the emigration of agricultural labourers, the extension o...

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Photograph album of the employees and inhabitants of the Coolangatta Estate, Shoalhaven River, N.S.W. / presented to John Hay, Esq., by his employees, November 1891

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Dreadnought Association further records, 1944-[2010?]

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Volume 82: Camden Park farm work, April 1880-July 1881, November-December 1888

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Records of the Dreadnought Trust, 1909-1939

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