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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
− | Richard Smith was a miner on the [[Eureka Lead]] in 1854. <ref>Blake, Gregory, ''To Pierce the Tyrant's Heart'', Australian Military History Publications, 2009, p.176.</ref> | + | Richard John Smith was a miner on the [[Eureka Lead]] in 1854. <ref>Blake, Gregory, ''To Pierce the Tyrant's Heart'', Australian Military History Publications, 2009, p.176.</ref> |
==Goldfields Involvement, 1854== | ==Goldfields Involvement, 1854== | ||
− | Richard Smith was asleep when the fighting started at the [[Eureka Stockade]] on 03 December 1854. He | + | Richard Smith was passing by in the vicinity of the Eureka Stockade on 02 December 1854. He was invited into the stockade were many rebels had been drinking during the night and and fallen asleep with their clothes on 'just lying down anywhere'. Smith was asleep when the fighting started at the [[Eureka Stockade]] on 03 December 1854. He ran out and immediately got shot in the leg. He stood alonmgside planks until the fight was over and gave himself up.<ref>McFarlane, Ian, Eureka From the Official Records, Public Record Office Victoria.</ref> Smith witnessed seeing the insurgents fleeing for their lives, running all over the place.<ref>Blake, Gregory, ''To Pierce the Tyrant's Heart'', Australian Military History Publications, 2009, p.176.</ref> |
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==Post 1854 Experiences== | ==Post 1854 Experiences== |
Latest revision as of 11:55, 9 May 2022
Contents
Background
Richard John Smith was a miner on the Eureka Lead in 1854. [1]
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Richard Smith was passing by in the vicinity of the Eureka Stockade on 02 December 1854. He was invited into the stockade were many rebels had been drinking during the night and and fallen asleep with their clothes on 'just lying down anywhere'. Smith was asleep when the fighting started at the Eureka Stockade on 03 December 1854. He ran out and immediately got shot in the leg. He stood alonmgside planks until the fight was over and gave himself up.[2] Smith witnessed seeing the insurgents fleeing for their lives, running all over the place.[3]
Post 1854 Experiences
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
References
External links