Jessie and Mervyn at Moorook

This article which appeared in the local Riverland paper, is quite a colourful story and is perhaps written by Mervyn  Herbert himself  as he is recorded as putting a newspaper together on HMAT Ballarat hospital ship back to Australia in 1915 after being wounded at Gallipoli and later wrote articles for the same  newspaper. It perhaps "over gilds the lily" in the description of Jessie's role with the British Red Cross, but she did indeed work for the British Red Cross along with her sister Betty. However it does give the reader an idea or two of the location and ambience of the property where my father grew up from 1922 until the early 1940's.

Article about Illangi 

Murray Pioneer and Australian River Record (Renmark, SA : 1913 - 1942), Thursday 29 June 1933, page 7