Australian History

[backcreek]

okay i need a clue

Me Too

 

[Mystyk59]

Is it the play Devils Brew ?

 

[Mystyk59]

Or Gordon Ramsay ?

 

[Ramjet]

Australian. Worked for Britain during The Great War.
An early chemistry student... Food chemistry

 

[TenOunce Tone]

Florey?

 

[Ramjet]

Florey?

No

 

[the duck]

Auguste Joseph Franois de Bavay

 

[Ramjet]

Auguste Joseph Franois de Bavay

No
Am I being too vague?

 

[ChrisM]

Auguste Joseph Franois de Bavay

No
Am I being too vague?

Vauge ? heck no.....never call you that mate.
I need a clue.
With Google as my friend I've become a much wiser man. Ive learnet about coffee, cocktails, chemists and lamingtons even follower the Brits through the Rowlatt Act, and the synthesis of non-aromatic steroids not to mention some Yank sticking a can of beer up a chickens Kyber Pass and calling it cooking.......[If only I studied this hard at school].....
Time for some more coffee....

 

[Ramjet]

Chuckle. Happy to be helping your education Chris.
Tried to make it so Google wouldn't help too much.

Gretna Green. 8)

 

[the duck]

Ernest Capuano or Arthur Conan Doyle?

 

[Ramjet]

No Duck. sorry

 

[Ramjet]

Marmite but Parwill

I must apologise... should have been "Devil's porridge" not devil's Brew.
Tho i found who it was just with the info I've supplied

 

[the duck]

Fred Walker's company first created and sold Vegemite in 1922.
Cyril P. Callister was his chemist

 

[Ramjet]

Well done Duck. Your turn.
Callister also created the Kraft cheese in the blue box we grew up with.
Devil's Porridge was the mixture used to make cordite.
Interesting story. I'm just about finished the book.

 

[the duck]

wow that was a good one indeed

Okay How many men escaped with william buckley and survived

 

[Land Rover]

3 escaped I think Buckley Was the only servivor hence the saying..... What's Ya chances ??? None and Buckley's ...as they thought the natives had killed him also

L/R

 

[the duck]

He only survived because he grabbed a spear from a grave walked over a hill and they thought he had been re incarnated and because of this he was not allowed to fight in tribal battles thus he survived

Your go land rover

 

[Land Rover]

What did Ned Kelly's last meal consist off??

L/R

 

[pushkartchampion]

Roast lamb and peas with a bottle of claret!