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ALBURY & DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC BULLETIN JULY 2007 Registered by Australia Post PP 225170/0019 470 REPORT ON THE JUNE MEETING (13/6/07) NEXT MEETING The meeting proceeded bury Cricket Club and also WEDNESDAY at a lively pace combin- life membership with the 11 JULY 2007 7.30pm at Commercial Club ing the business of the North Albury Football Past Players Association. Albury AGM, well researched Speaker: Mr Ron Ahern answers to the Question OFFICE-BEARERS “My experiences as a tailor of the Month and the & COMMITTEE in Albury.” highlight, a fascinating There are changes to the NOTE CHANGE OF TIME committee for 2007/08. June address by Mr Rowan Shanahan did not seek re- Chalmers-Borella on his election, so Helen Livsey was QUESTION OF THE unique experience of elected secretary. There were MONTH growing up as the son of no nominations for treasurer The Hume Freeway is a VC winner. so it was passed to the com- the latest change to the Rowan has lived in Albury mittee, as were the positions of junior vice-president and road to Sydney. What since 1946, being educated at have been the earlier Albury High School and Al- auditor. Jill Wooding and bury Technical College. He Howard Jones joined the routes through and from served his apprenticeship as a committee. Albury? carpenter & joiner and Subsequent to the AGM, worked in the building trade, Chris McQuellin has agreed INSIDE THIS ISSUE the last 15 years in partner- to be treasurer and June My life as the son of a ship with his youngest son Shanahan junior vice- Victoria Cross winner Page 2 president. A full list of posi- Answer to Question of Month Page 4 Richard at Borella Cabinets. Adelyn Clothing Factory Page 5 Rowan has had a keen inter- tions is shown in the panel Library/Museum volunteers Page 5 est in cricket and football, below. The appointment of an Base Hospital archives Page 6 being honoured with life auditor remains a task for the Journals Page 6 committee. Harold Mair Bridge Page 6 membership in the North Al- Membership renewal Page 6 ALBURY & DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC PO Box 822 ALBURY 2640 Patron: Harold Mair OAM Journals & Stock: John Craig History Meetings: 2nd Wednesday Public Officer: Helen Livsey Honorary Auditor: tba of the month 8pm at Commercial President: Doug Hunter Membership list & Bulletin dispatch: Ray 02 6021 2835 [email protected] Gear Club Albury. Vice-Presidents: Joe Wooding, June Shanahan Bulletin Editor: Doug Hunter 02 6021 2835 Committee meets 4th Tuesday of the Secretary: Helen Livsey 02 6021 3671 [email protected] month 5.15pm at Albury City Treasurer: Chris McQuellin ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION Library. Minute Secretary: Jan Marsden Single: $22 Committee: Helen Pithie, John Craig, Carole Whitbourn, Jill Wooding, Howard Jones and Family: $30 A&DHS website: Ray Gear Corporate: $50 www.alburycity.nsw.gov.au/museum/heritage MY LIFE AS THE SON OF one of the best on the Daly. to Sergeant in January 1917; A VICTORIA CROSS He cleared his land and Mentioned in Dispatches WINNER erected 3 miles of fencing and (MID) in February, and By Rowan Chalmers-Borella dug a well 30 feet deep.” awarded a Military Medal ALBERT Dad worked his block for (MM) the following month CHALMERS-BORELLA two years before, climate, re- for conspicuous bravery in Albert Chalmers Borella moteness and lack of prom- the attack on Malt Trench. was born in Borung (near ised support forced him off. He was commissioned in Wedderburn) on 7/8/1881; The land flooded in the wet, April 1917 and on 17/18 July that is 126 years ago, but that but there was no water in the 1918 he was awarded the doesn't make me 100 years dry. Produce sent to Darwin Victoria Cross for his actions old just yet. My father was 52 rotted on the wharf when the while leading his platoon near when I was born. ship failed to arrive. He Villers-Bretonneux. Keith Dad‟s mother died when he abandoned the block in 1915, Attiwill of the Argus newspa- was only four and he lived and set out for Darwin to per wrote this account of with his grandparents before enlist. When the horse went what happened: returning to help his father on lame he walked 88 miles, “Borella & his platoon a farm near Echuca swimming a flooded river „hopped the bags‟ with the DALY RIVER along the way. He used his first wave in the attack near In early 1913, after two only money to pay an out- Villers-Bretonneux, just east years with the Melbourne standing debt to the Lands of Amiens. When Borella saw Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Board, then found there was a machine gun firing through Medals awarded to Capt A Chalmers-Borella: Victoria Cross, Military Medal, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal 1914- 18, Victory Medal with oak leaf denoting Mentioned in Dispatches, British War Medal 1939-45, Australian General Service Medal, Coronation Medal (George VI), Coronation Medal (Elizabeth II), Somme Medal with palm (France), Albert Cross with palm (Belgium), Gallipoli Commemorative Star, and Front Line Infantry Service Medal. Dad took up a block on the no recruiting office in Dar- the Australian barrage, he ran Daly River in Northern Terri- win. He borrowed the boat ahead of his platoon into the tory. Although there was a fare to Townsville from a barrage, shot two German copper mine operating nearby generous gentleman whom he machine gunners with his re- and a Jesuit Mission further was able to repay when the volver and captured the gun. along the river, the Daly two met again in France. When he got back to his pla- River area was remote in WORLD WAR I toon it had been reduced to 10 those days and is still. Albert Chalmers Borella men & 2 Lewis guns. The Peter Forrest, in his book, enlisted on 3.3.1915 and was eleven pressed on towards the th The Spirit of the Daly, wrote, allotted to the 26 Infantry strongly held Jaffa Trench. “Albert Borella worked ener- Battalion. Following service Using his revolver and later getically on his land, building on Gallipoli, the battalion his rifle with deadly effect a house which was notably went to France where Dad Borella charged into the en- was wounded in the battle of emy. His example was inspir- Pozieres. Dad was promoted ing and before long the pla- A&DHS Bulletin 465 PAGE 2 toon had shot the enemy in though he had only lived to Deniliquin to see his the trench & captured it. Two there two and bit years. brother. I was the only pas- large dugouts were located senger; I guess Mum had to and 30 prisoners taken. The Parks and streets named in stay home to milk the Germans re-organised and honour of Capt Albert cows. The journey seemed counter attacked twice in Chalmers-Borella include: to take a week. On arriving strong force. The second time Borella Park-Memorial Park at Uncle Charlie‟s place, out numbering Borella's men with citation in Darwin, and my Auntie came out to tell 10 to 1, but the Aussies did Borella Circuit, Jingili; Dad he was wanted on the not flinch. Borella showed Borella Park with plaque in phone. The war had just such amazing coolness and Wedderburn Vic (near where broken out & the phone determination that his platoon Dad was born); call was from Victoria Bar- put up heroic resistance and Borella Club at Bandiana racks in Melbourne to twice repulsed the enemy.” Army Camp; say:"Report to the Barracks Lieutenant Albert Chalmers Borella Crescent in Can- immediately." I guess we Borella received his Victoria berra; and stayed the night then set Cross from King George V at Borella Road in Albury out for Melbourne next Buckingham Palace in Octo- which is to be rededicated on day. I can still remember ber 1918. 17th/18th July 2007 follow- sitting in the car outside AFTER THE WAR ing completion of Hume this old building-covered in After the war Dad took up a Freeway. ivy, for what seemed like soldiers settlers block at MY RECOLLECTIONS hours. At last Dad came out Cavendish near Hamilton and Now to speak on how my and took me to his sister's ran a sheep & dairy farm. life has been effected being place in Carnegie. I never Dad stood as a National Party the son of a VC winner. went back to the farm as candidate for Dundas in 1924 I could probably sum it up Mum and my 3 brothers and was only narrowly de- in one sentence--- when I came to Sandringham to feated. read the citation, or paper re- live about 3 months later. Dad married Elsie Love at ports of events leading up to We all went to Sandring- Hamilton in 1928. I was the Dad winning the medal, I still ham East School. third of 4 sons born at Hamil- choke up with emotion and I can remember the ton. Dad added a hyphen to pride even though it was 89 search lights in the sky his name by deed-poll in years ago and 15 years before over Melbourne. We were 1939 to read Chalmers- I was born. Dad was a very even evacuated to Yarra Borella. This was so some of quiet and modest person, who Junction for a while and so the honour of the VC would seldom spoke of his war years to another school. go to his mother‟s family - and had to be asked a ques- We moved from Mel- the Chalmers.
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