Record ID:
36568932 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 92071236
Heading:
Birth:
  • 19030903
  • Hartley (N.S.W.)
Death:
  • 19750119
  • Beaudesert (Qld.)
Associated with:
  • Australia
  • Lamington Plateau (Qld.)
Occupations:
  • Bush workers
  • Authors
Used for:
  • O'Reilly, Alfonso Bernard, 1903-1975
Notes:
  • His Over the hills, 1963?: t.p. (Bernard O'Reilly) cover p. 4 (b. 1903; d. 1975)
  • Australian Dictionary of Biography (online) 18 April 2021: (Alfonso Bernard O'Reilly (1903-1975), bushman and author, was born on 3 September 1903 at Hartley, New South Wales. After finishing school in 1917, Bernard joined his brothers on the land in the McPherson Ranges, Queensdland, adjacent to the Lamington National Park; he worked as a dairy farmer and park ranger. In 1937, following the disappearence of a plane on 19 February, Bernard was responsible for finding and rescuinbg two survivors. He served in the Second World War in the Middle East, New Guinea and Borneo. He spent much of the rest of his life in the mountains of the Queensland-New South Wales border region; he published four books, tourist pamphlets and a book of verse. He died in Beaudesert Hospital on 19 January 1975.) https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/oreilly-alfonso-bernard-7916
Local system number:
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX164557
  • 000001577164
  • abv02778806
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng rda DLC AIAS VJTL
Authentication code:
  • anuc