Myrtle Troyahn (nee Burgess)
Myrtle Alice Burgess was born on 17th January 1913, into one of Redcliffe's early pioneering families. She was plagued by illness early...
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- Feb 20
- 1 min
Martin Kent
Martin Kent was a stylish right handed batsman who played cricket for the Sandgate Redcliffe Club. In the 1974/75 season Martin Kent...
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- Feb 20
- 1 min
Gabi Mika McNaughton
Gabi attended Sydney's Fashion and Textile Design National Art School, gaining valuable insights into creative art that she would...
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- Feb 20
- 2 min
Kim Wilkins
Kim Wilkins is an Australian writer of popular fiction based in Brisbane, Queensland. She was born in London and grew up in Redcliffe in...
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- Feb 20
- 2 min
Jodie Bowering
Born in 1982 in Redcliffe, Jodie's mother got her involved with teeball as an eventual gateway to softball as a six-year-old. At the...
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- Feb 20
- 2 min
Bill Hoogwaerts
As a small boy, born in Holland in 1938, Bill Hoogwaerts witnessed at first hand the devastation caused by the Nazi's in World War 2. At...
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- Feb 20
- 1 min
Santo Perna
For over 30 years Santo Perna volunteered at Redcliffe Little Athletics officiating, sporting and marking the track lines to ensure the...
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- Feb 20
- 3 min
Graham Reid
Born in 1964 ,Graham grew up in Redcliffe, and was a junior at Redcliffe Leagues Hockey Club. He won the Brisbane Hockey Association Best...
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- Feb 20
- 2 min
Karin Van Wirdum
Born in 1971, Karin Van Wirdum joined the Redcliffe Leagues Swimming Club as a youngster and subsequently as a freestyle swimmer,...
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- Feb 20
- 2 min
Captain Kerry Lopez
Kerry Lopez has successfully combined the roles of businesswoman and environmentalist by focusing on her love of whales and Moreton Bay's...
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- Feb 20
- 2 min
Tarnee White OAM
Olympic Gold medallist, Tarnee White was born in Redcliffe in 1981 and attended Southern Cross Catholic College. From an early age she...
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- Feb 20
- 3 min
Marle Juster OAM.
As a young boy, Marle Juster moved with his family from Brisbane to Margate in 1935, attending Humpybong School. There was little more...
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- Feb 20
- 2 min
Bob Jones
In 1975, now long serving chairman of the Dolphins, Bob Jones, then a young aspiring rugby league player from the New South Wales country...
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- Feb 20
- 1 min
Lorraine Fisher BEM.
Lorraine Fisher followed her parents footsteps by dedicating her adult life to volunteering in many of Redcliffe's charitable and...
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- Feb 20
- 2 min
Leanne Francis
1972 Olympic Games swimmer Leanne Francis, grew up in Redcliffe, attending Soubirous Brigidine College (School Captain 1972) and was...
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- Feb 16
- 3 min
Jim Fenwick
Jim Fenwick was born in Brisbane in 1934 and after many moves in his young life, he moved with his family to the Peninsula in 1942. He...
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- Feb 15
- 6 min
Geoff Huegill
Geoffrey Andrew Huegill (born 4 March 1979) is an Australian swimmer and dual Olympian who won seventy-two international medals,...
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- Feb 15
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Blake Cochrane OAM
Blake John Cochrane born on 25th January 1991 in Charleville, Queensland. Cochrane's parents enrolled him in swimming in an effort to...
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- Jan 18
- 8 min
Bomb detonated on Redcliffe Parade in 1955
On Sunday the 10th July 1955 at 5.20pm, a bomb went off under a grey 1952 FX Holden utility on Redcliffe Parade outside Woolworths and...
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- Jan 12
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Stephen Comino AM
Stephen Comino was born in Laidley, Queensland in 1928, He was born to greek parents, Arthur and Mary Comino, who operated a cafe in the...
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