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Mackellar, Dorothea

Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar was a poet and fiction writer. Her work My Country is one of Australia's best known poems.

Milestone
Born
Point Piper
01 Jul 1885
Buried
1968
Died
Paddington
14 Jan 1968
Name
Alternate
Mackellar, Isobel Marion Dorothea
Occupation
Position
1900 - 1903
1904
Relationship
Child of
Child of
Sibling

Mackellar, Keith Kinnaird 

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2018

Keith Kinnaird Mackellar was an older brother to poet Dorothea Mackellar, and was the only Australian soldier whose remains were brought back to Australia of over one thousand men who lost their lives in the Boer War.