Quinn's Post

By Peter Stanley
Updated January 17 2013 - 9:13am, first published January 9 2013 - 3:00am
An Australian soldier lies wounded at Anzac Cove on the day of the Gallipoli landing, April 25, 1915. This scene is looking along the beach to the north. Photo: Philip Schuller (The Age Gallipoli Pictures).
An Australian soldier lies wounded at Anzac Cove on the day of the Gallipoli landing, April 25, 1915. This scene is looking along the beach to the north. Photo: Philip Schuller (The Age Gallipoli Pictures).

Around nine each weekday morning in the winter of 1922, Old Bob Cozier's sulky left the Queanbeyan Post Office in Monaro Street. It carried sacks of letters and parcels for what was known as the Federal Capital Territory. Suburbs today, in 1922 Isabella Plains, Woden and Tuggeranong were stations and villages in the open sheep country to Queanbeyan's south west. Old Bob geed up his horse and it walked on up the street, past the site of what would soon become Queanbeyan's war memorial, and up the gravelled road running south out of the town towards Tharwa.

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