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Jack Logan Wheelock

Jack Logan Wheelock

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  • Name Jack Logan Wheelock 
    Birth 16 Jan 1919  Carnarvon Western Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    ServiceRec 1940 
    WHEELOCK JACK LOGAN : Service Number - WX8753 : Date of birth - 16 Jan 1919 : Place of birth - CARNARVON WA : Place of enlistment - CLAREMONT WA : Next of Kin - WHEELOCK DARCY

    https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=6459851 
    Person ID I256  Drovers
    Last Modified 25 Feb 2023 

    Father Darcy Logan Wheelock,   b. 1888, Carnarvon Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1962, Perth Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years) 
    Mother Edna Elizabeth ILes 
    Marriage 1917  South Perth Western Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F80  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Avril Dolores Freeman,   b. 1919, Carnarvon Western Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 12 Jan 1946  Mt Lawley Western Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • WHEELOCK-FREEMAN.-.On January 12. 1946. at St. Patrick's Church Mt. Lawley, John Logan, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Wheelock. late of Carnarvon. to Avril Dolores. youngest daughter of Mrs. W Freeman and the late Mr. Freeman, Third avenue. Mt. Lawley also late of Carnarvon. [1]
    Children 
     1. Cheryl Dolores Wheelock,   b. 12 Jan 1948
    Family ID F82  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 24 Feb 2023 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 16 Jan 1919 - Carnarvon Western Australia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 12 Jan 1946 - Mt Lawley Western Australia Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Bullocky Jack

      Dear "Non-Com, Further to the droving series, horse-breaking, mules, horses, steers, buck-jumping and camels, there is one man who has not been mentioned yet in your pages. That is Jack Wheelock, better known in this district as "Bullocky Jack."

      For riding buck-jumpers, mules, horses, steers and camels I have never seen his equal. Harry Faber or Skuthorpe could not give him any points at riding bucking horses. Jack could ride any animal at all.

      He has just completed droving several thousand sheep from Wydgee station to Pindar, only losing 15 sheep over a distance of 90 miles. That is no mean feat now in the Murchison in very hot and dry conditions with not a skerrick of feed on the way. Dr. Thorn, owner of Wydgee station, says Jack is the best drover he has met in all his experience either with cattle or sheep.

      Jack also broke in two camel teams for riding and team work and carted 12 tons of wool from Keickallocke station over 100 miles to the railway siding. The brothers Broad think Jack is the daddy of all the camel teamsters, white or Afghan, that they have ever employed carting on their stations.

      He is a thorough bushman, good rifle shot and tracker and gave valuable assistance to police, tracking for them on a murder case a few years ago in the Murchison district.

      Jack Wheelock was a digger in the 11th Battalion and saw active service from the landing at Gallipoli with that famous battalion. In France he was wounded five times and collected a D.C.M. and M.M. for bravery in action. He has worked in this district for 40 years droving all kinds of stock.

      B.B., Mt. Magnet. [2]

  • Sources 
    1. [D1] National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50329162.
      "Family Notices" The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954) 7 March 1946: 1

    2. [D1] National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50062209.
      "Bullocky Jack." (1937, January 21). Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 - 1954), p. 12