About: Sam Irvine

An Entity of Type: Thing, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org:8891

Sam Irvine (12 January 1890 – 12 December 1959) was a bushman and mail contractor who worked throughout the Northern Territory in the 1920s and 1930s who became a well known identity in the area. Ernestine Hill called Irvine a "hero of the north".

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Sam Irvine (12 January 1890 – 12 December 1959) was a bushman and mail contractor who worked throughout the Northern Territory in the 1920s and 1930s who became a well known identity in the area. Ernestine Hill called Irvine a "hero of the north". (en)
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 63932842 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 7501 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1097604732 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:author
  • Ernestine Hill (en)
dbp:source
  • The Advertiser (en)
dbp:text
  • For the outback mailman, rain or sun, through menace of thirst or possibility of drowning, all life must run to schedule. He is a friend to everyone in the north and many owe thanks to him, for Sam has grub-staked more than his share of unfortunate travellers. Friend and confidant, doctor and nurse, private secretary and bush lawyer on occasion; guardian angel for the many miles of desolation, Sam Irvine is one of the most popular and best known figures of the Centre. I shall always remember him, sitting upon a pyramid of mailbags in the mud, drinking a pannikin of strong cold tea, and wet to the skin, removing from his weary limbs the yellow clay that carried his skin with it. "His Majesty's Mail" said Sam, surveying the wreckage "I wish that he could see this lot" (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Sam Irvine (12 January 1890 – 12 December 1959) was a bushman and mail contractor who worked throughout the Northern Territory in the 1920s and 1930s who became a well known identity in the area. Ernestine Hill called Irvine a "hero of the north". (en)
rdfs:label
  • Sam Irvine (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License