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http://www.tarago.org.au/tarago_community_times.php May 2017 The Tarago Times is a non-profit community service, published monthly by the Tarago Sporting Association Inc by a team of volunteers. It has a circulation of 500 copies distributed throughout Tarago, Lake Bathurst, Mayfield, Boro, Taylors Creek and the surrounding district. View online at http://www.tarago.org.au/tarago_community_times.php Tarago pauses to Pictured Above: Laying wreaths are Commander Dave Hargan and Warrant Officer Adrian Whitby. remember Anzac heroes. Photos: Megan Alcock More photos on page 2. Pictured Above: Rob Brown lowered the flag for the Last Post. Veolia is a proud sponsor of The Tarago Times Woodlawn Bioreactor Community Feedback Line: 1800 241 750 Tarago Times May 2017 Page 1 http://www.tarago.org.au/tarago_community_times.php Reflection, Breakfast and 2 Up Top Left: St Andrew’s Church warden Ruth Corrigan reads The Benediction at the Dawn Service. Top Centre: Wreaths laid at the Tarago War Memorial. Top Right: Youngsters at the ceremony pay their respects. Far Right: Locals catch up at the Gunfire Breakfast. Below Right: Aaron Wilde’s turn as Spinner at the Loaded Dog 2 Two-Up. Below Left: A scene from Above: After the dawn service - the the Gunfire Breakfast which re-enactment of the heroic horse Bill was well attended after the the Bastard. Bill was played by Pony service. captured here in full flight carrying the 5 troopers to safety. Photos by Megan Alcock and Vicki Bowes. A total of $2,293.00 was raised for Legacy. TADPAI Anzac Day donations totalled $1,214.07 with $1,688 coming from the Loaded Dog Hotel collection Hat and $605 from 2up. Page 2 Tarago Times May 2017 http://www.tarago.org.au/tarago_community_times.php In Memory of Marianne Louise (Chalmers) Ronayne 20th October 1941 – 27th March 2017. Written by Keith Hunter Marianne Louise Chalmers was born on the 20th of October In 1950 they were posted to Suffield, Alberta, which at 1941 in Vancouver, Canada. The first born daughter of the time was a top secret base specializing in testing Roy Leon Chalmers of Biggar, Saskatchewan, and Lorna germ and chemical warfare. Second sister Janet was born (Scott) Chalmers. She had two younger sisters, Lynne and on 13th April 1951 in Brooks, a nearby town. The reason Janet, and a brother Scott who died at a very young age. for this location was that the nearest hospital in Medicine Hat was beside a river (South Saskatchewan) which froze Her father, Roy, enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force solid and had to be bombed to break up the ice. Her (RCAF) on the 22nd of July 1939. During the war he was an mother was sent to Brooks in a truck converted to run armaments instructor as well as organising the logistics on the railway tracks as the snow was too deep for cars of The Empire Training Scheme. The Empire Training to use the road. The family has a picture of her father Scheme later became known as the Commonwealth Air pulling a toboggan loaded with mother and new baby Training Scheme. Roy was awarded the MBE (military) Janet through a tunnel in the snow from the rail line to for his efforts in helping to establish this scheme and the back door of their house. was presented the MBE at an investiture on the 24th of November 1943. He finally retired from the RCAF on 26th They were next sent to St. Hubert’s base, Quebec in August 1955. Due to a variety of postings in Canada and 1951. In November her father was severely injured in a overseas the family was constantly on the move. plane crash and was in Queen Mary Veterans Hospital, Montreal for some time. He was the sole survivor, with Marianne’s early life was spent in Vancouver and then the other 7 in the plane being killed on impact. Roy was towards the end of the war in Trenton, Ontario where awarded the George Medallion for his efforts in trying her first sister Lynne was born on 26th March 1945. It to rescue fellow passengers of the plane. The extent was only a few days later that their father was posted of her father’s burns prompted Sir Charles McIndoe (of overseas. At the end of the war her father’s sister Eileen the famed Guinea Pigs Club) to send his partner from and her son Barry came to live with them as her husband England to do the massive job of plastic surgery. had been killed at Dunkirk. They lived at Carrying Place in Ontario for some while and then lived in White Rock, continued on page 4 British Columbia. Solar Power Off Grid Phone Martin on On Grid 4849 4225 Or 0421 196 021 Hybrid www.cjsolar.com.au Clean Energy Council Accredited Installing Solar since 2004 Licensed Electrical Contractors (241654C) Tarago Times May 2017 Page 3 http://www.tarago.org.au/tarago_community_times.php continued from page 3 the 30th of September 1967. They went to Vancouver, Canada for their honeymoon, where John met the Her Mother stayed at the hospital after the crash as Roy Chalmers family. John and Marianne lived at Mosman for was not expected to live. Lynne was sent to neighbours several years and during that time Marianne managed a and Marianne, at the ripe old age of 9, was left to look pharmacy at Gordon and John worked for Ansett Airlines after baby Janet. Their Auntie Mary Anne and Nana Mink as a Traffic Officer. They moved to Perth in 1973 where arrived a few days later and relieved her of that burden! their first son Scott was born on 10th February 1976. Scott Marianne visited her father in hospital on Christmas Day is now married and living in Goulburn. On returning from and collapsed from the shock of seeing him encased in Perth in 1979 they settled in Pittwater, Sydney. During bandages. their roughly 10 years in Pittwater they had several small Auntie Mary Anne took Lynne and Marianne back to businesses firstly the Bayview general store and marina, Vancouver and Janet stayed in Montreal with their Mother then the Church Point store and marina then a mixed returning to Vancouver in 1953 to reunite the family. business at Dee Why. Father, Roy, was transferred to Shaughnessy Hospital Their second son Jonathon was born at Mona Vale on 20th where he underwent more surgery and rehabilitation. June 1980 and is now a Major in the Army living in Darwin They lived at the Sea Island Air with his wife and three daughters. Force Base and brother Scott On the 20th June 1989 (Jonathon’s was born on 18th April 1954 at 9th birthday) the family was off again Vancouver General. All three of moving to Sidney, Vancouver Island, the girls caught a horrid type of British Columbia, Canada where measles and their Mother left for they lived for around ten years. hospital long before Scott was due Marianne managed a newsagency/ so Marianne, now twelve, looked stationary supply store, John worked after herself and the two girls in a number of vocations and the two until their mother returned from boys completed their education. hospital with baby Scott. In 1988 John and Marianne returned Roy finally retired on 26th August to Australia initially living at Middle 1955 after extensive lobbying to Arm, Goulburn and then settling be given a pension, the family in Bourke St, Goulburn, running moved to one of their few ‘civilian’ a newsagency in what is now houses on 19th and Dunbar. From Goulburn Square. Marianne joined there they went to Crescent Beach, the Red Cross becoming Secretary British Columbia where Marianne then President of the Goulburn contracted polio and went through Chapter until it was closed by higher a long process of learning how to headquarters earlier this century. walk again, aided by parallel bars, During her tenure as President, the with Dad in the lead, then Scott Goulburn Chapter hosted the Queen and finally Marianne. Scott was just of Denmark on a visit to Goulburn. learning how to walk and of course copied the rolling gait that Dad had On retirement in 2004, Marianne and and people commented that ‘it was a shame that that John moved to Cullulla Rd Tarago. Marianne soon became poor little boy had such difficulty walking in a normal involved in local community organisations and was one manner’! The next stop was Dellbrook in North Vancouver of the founding members of the Tarago and District for about three years and then on to Vancouver Island Progress Association, in the early days she was involved - Bedford Place, Victoria. Marianne graduated from Oak with the Tarago Anzac day events collecting money for Bay High School in 1959. Legacy. Marianne served on the Tarago Show Committee for 12 years and contributed enormously to our show They moved to New Zealand in 1960 or 61 and lived in St. both physically and intellectually in her performance as Hellier’s Bay. In 1961 or 62 the family moved to Australia, Publicity Officer and Committee Member. staying first in Newport, then Chatswood, then St Ives. Marianne was an innovative person with a very active Their father returned to Canada in March 1962 as the mind, and through her efforts the community has humidity caused him anguish as all of his skin grafts started benefited in many ways, given the many village activities to pop. Mother Lorna, Scott, Lynne and Janet returned that she had been involved with over the years. to Vancouver by sea a couple of days after Marianne’s 21st birthday in 1962.

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