Lost in Gunning's Wild and Mountainous Murriongs Sir Charles Belcher OBE 1876-1970. Know nothing about him? He certainly knew Gunning as a youngster; and remembered it fondly despite being at risk of death from thirst and exposure when lost in our “wild and mountainous Murriongs” in 1888. Photo: Wikipedia Over the last few months I have spent too much of my life in pursuit of Sir Charles Belcher. I blame it all on Trove where I chanced upon this January 1888 report by the Gunning correspondent of the Goulburn Evening and Penny Post: “On New Year’s Eve a boy named Belcher was reported to be missing. It would seem that the lad, in the company of two or three others, went for a bird’s nest ramble in the bush. By some means the boy got so far from his companions as to be out of sight and hearing. The lad wandered through the bush until he came upon the homestead of Mr T Mooney. A search party had been organised in the meantime who were pleased to learn that the...
Upper Lachlan Shire, Southern Tablelands, New South Wales