London to Australia: Living the legacy of a 'pommie jackaroo' 🤠🇬🇧 | Landlife | ABC Australia
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Spending a year or two working as a jackaroo on an Australian sheep station was once a rite of passage for many young Englishmen. Mark Evison was one of them.
In 2001, he came to work on Mungadal Station, a vast merino sheep property at Hay, in southern New South Wales.
Likeable, extremely capable and game for anything, he made a lasting impression. After a year he returned to London and followed family tradition by becoming a soldier.
Dubbed '008' by his comrades, he was a rising star in the Welsh Guards when he was killed in action in 2009 in Afghanistan's remote and dangerous Helmand province.
The 26-year-old Lieutenant died from blood loss three days after being shot - shortly after he had warned the British Army its overstretched forces could not get adequate medical aid to wounded frontline troops.
Events leading to his death were told in an award-winning BBC documentary, The Lost Platoon.
This year, teenager Charlie Depel from Putney, in inner-London, has followed in Lieutenant Evison's jackarooing footsteps through a foundation established in his memory.
Producer: Tim Lee.
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Stay if you can. I am a 74-year-old POM who has been in Australia for 40 years. Coming here is the best thing I ever did, I should have come when I was 20.
Unbelievable flicking through RUclips and coming across this video, I was born in Hay in 1953 and now living in Scotland.
I’m Irish and first moved to griffith 11 years ago
"Hell West and Crooked" by Tom Cole. A bloody ripper yarn, Tom from England, straight into the outback.
one of the amazing feats i remember from tom's book is where they pushed x amount of cattle 100 miles without water .just can't even imagine what that took .
Australian country people... The best there is ...
Best video game these lads will ever experience...wish I had the chance...
I love those nations : Australia, Canada, New Zealand Plus such other similar nations or islands
Thats because there are still wild and natural areas. But unfortunately the Australian government sells them off from under the people to countries like China. One day in a few generations time, Australians will only be able to go to videos to see Australia. Short term government shouldn’t be able to make long term decisions on behalf of the people
Station life is great and the outback gets into your blood and stays with you for life….nowadays most Australians are city folks disconnected from the land whereas in previous generations there was generally some family connection to the land and rural life
Lived in Australia on the Murray as a boy parent came home and so did great regret that happened baby sister has a sheep station in Tasmania love the space nice that’s being done in memory of a brave young man may he rest in pease.
Oh, I've been staying in Hay for a night on a roadtrip to the coast. :)
@luke Hammond
Prisoner of her majesty, POM
Prisoner of Mother England. England had a King when convicts were transported
@@jamesdoust6975 so what? Her becomes his.
The good old hay plains . Many went to griffith for a weekend get away for the beers
There’s this as well There was a description of Jimmy Grant, meaning immigrant, became Pommy Grant as the Australian sun allegedly turned immigrants′ skin pomegranate red. A Jimmy grant was in reference to the grants granted to new immigrants to come to Australia...
So that's what a sheep looks like. Also, I hope it all works out for you young man.
@Wallaby Wrechords Well, it was nice meeting you.
Good on ya
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I hope Putney Boy gets to eat some roast lamb.
I hope the Jackarooing makes a man of him.
Beautiful country.
Gods Country!!
What is the name of the. Program that this “pommie” is out here in Aus? I would like to know more to perhaps encourage my daughter when she is older ...
@Wallaby Wrechords This comment is a poor reflection on you. If you have nothing constructive to say... don't... as it removes all doubts about oneself. That one is capable of stringing a couple of random characters in a form that looks like a sentence means there is possibly hope for you. I asked a question looking for help, are you capable of that? If you know nothing, can you do the best thing for all of us... SHUT UP! Thank you.
I think it's named after the pommie blokes foundation mate.
Gosh sounds a bit Aussie to me
Please stop using emojis!