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Allison, Glenys

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Allison, Glenys

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Glenys Allison is a historian and a special education teacher

Bankstown Soldier Settlement Milperra as Author

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Bankstown Soldier Settlement Milperra

Faced with disabled returned soldiers from World War I, the New South Wales government sponsored group settlements on Sydney's fringes, hoping that the ex-soldiers would be able to support their families on small farms. The Bankstown settlement had 30 families by 1918, but for most of them, the experience was not a success.