Lucas Cliff
| Type of person | Individual |
|---|---|
| Date of birth | 1918 |
| Place of birth | Nurse Greens Nursing home |
| Date of death | 2009 |
Clifford Lewis Lucas, known as Cliff, was born in 1918 at Nurse Green's Nursing Home on King Street, son of Frank and Alvena Lucas.[1] He grew up on his family's farm on Parker's Road, outside Willaston.[1] He and his siblings Eric, Reg, Les and Elsie attended the Loos School (Buchsfelde), a three mile walk from their farm.[1]
Cliff married Gwenda Folland on the 25th April 1939.[1]
Over the years, he worked various jobs, including farm work, grader driving and metal machining, before training as a carpenter with Clarrie Ayling at Willaston.[1]
In 1948 he was employed by the Commonwealth Department of Works and Housing as a maintenance carpenter and undertook work to adapt the old Willaston Royal Australia Air Force (RAAF) base to become the Willaston Migrant Hostel.[2] (Cliff was one of the interviewees for Jeff Turner's book "This'll do", which features the Willaston Migrant Hostel)[2]
In his later years he resided at Southern Cross Care, Gawler East. He passed away on 8th April 2009, and is buried at Willaston Cemetery with his wife Gwenda.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 When a halfpenny "meant something" (Bunyip 12 Jul 2000) https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6398999185
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jeff Turner and Anne Richards (2017) "This'll do": Post-Second World War Migration to Gawler : featuring the Willaston Migrant Workers' Hostel, Gawler Branch of the National Trust of South Australia, Gawler, SA. [Gawler Public Library A 304.9423 TUR]
- Cliff Lucas was one of the people Jeff Turner interviewed when preparing this book
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