WW1 & WW2 Soldier Settlers at Merino Downs & Wurt Wurt Koort, Victoria, Australia

After the 1914-18 War, about 360 acres of "Merino Downs" estate were bought for soldier settlement, and Messrs :

BIRD, J. M.
KEILLER, T. F.
NOLTE, M.
SAUNDERS

set up dairy farms; but the allotments were too small and one farm was divided up among the other three.

Wurt Wurt Koort WW2 Soldier Settlers

Merino Downs (Henty), S-W Victoria, Australia

In 1948 a portion of Wurt Wurt Koort estate was purchased by the Soldier Settlement Commission, who settled 26 returned soldiers on about 4000 acres. The original settlers were:

ANNETT, C. S.
ANNETT, K. M.
BEATON, F. T.
CAMPBELL, D. K.
COOPER, C.
FARTCH, H.
FRANCIS, C.
GILLLICK, L. J.
GUYE, L.

HEANEY, E. A.
HEDDITCH, J. H.
HINCHCLIFFE, R. G.
HUNT, A.
MADEX, S.
MASON, B. W.
MEADE, J. T.
McCALLUM, M. W.
McNAMARA, C. L.

NESBIT, G.
NEVILLE, G. W.
OULD, J.
PEARCE, S.
SMITH, F. J.
TUFFNELL, E. R.
WATTS, K.
WILLOUGHBY, C. T.

Information has been sourced from a book produced for the Back to Merino and Digby celebrations in 1977 and you may be fortunate to find one in a second-hand bookstore. The title of the book was:

"Merino Digby Heritage" : 1977

Merino Downs WW1 Soldier Settlers (1921)

Merino Downs (Henty), S-W Victoria, Australia