In about 1947 John's parents Charles Henry George & Ada Crane of Darbalara purchased this property from Jack & Ginny Higgins. As it happened a large family of sons and daughters was replaced by another one equally as large. With four strapping young sons and several willing young girls to share the heavy work load and able sisters to help with the milking etc,the farm prospered right up to the 1966 resumption.

5.John Reginald Crane, son of Mr & Mrs H Crane Mr & Mrs H Crane was born on the 24th April, 1917, at Gundagai, NSW -

Name CRANE, JOHN REGINALD

Service Australian Army

Service Number NX111788 (N201910)

Date of Birth 24 Apr 1917

Place of Birth GUNDAGAI, NSW

Date of Enlistment 19 Jul 1942

Locality on Enlistment GUNDAGAI, NSW

Place of Enlistment ST IVES, NSW

Next of Kin CRANE, HARRY

Date of Discharge 10 May 1946

Rank Private

Posting at Discharge 2/7 AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION

In 1948 he married Miss Mona Joan Eggleton in Tumut, NSW. - (Ref:- NSW BDM No.10973/1948)

Mona was a daughter of Mr & Mrs Rolf Eggleton and had lived on a property situated about 5 miles north of "Fairview" on the West Blowering Road.

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Helen Crane Helen CRANE was born in 1950 in Tumut. She went to the TIHS.

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Mona died on the 17th August, 2002, in the Tumut District Hospital, (Ref:- Tumut District Hospital, & - Tumut & Adelong Times,2002)

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