FLANAGAN Elworthy Luke"PEB"

Elworthy was born at Albany in January 1893, son of James Michael Flanagan and Elizabeth Honorah nee Treasure of the Treasure family associated with Martinup. A single farmer aged 21 when he enlisted in October 1914, he departed in February 1915 as a ‘Driver’, of the 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance, part of the 10th Light Horse (C Squad). C Squad was in the thick of many desperate battles at Gallipoli after arriving on the 20 May 1915. The regiment's action at the Battle of the Nek was immortalised in Peter Weir’s film Gallipoli. They were also involved in the battle at Hill 60. He returned to Australia almost five years and 57 days later in July 1919.

Elworthy took up one third of the Martinup Estate. Leo & Sid Treasure took up the other two thirds. in 1921 which had been part of Martinup under the Soldier Settlement Scheme and named it "Lone Pine" after the place where he was involved in a fierce battle fought there.

PEB FLANAGAN             #1
 

Peb was one of the 10th Light Horsemen who formed a guard of honour for the Governor, Sir Francis Newdegate, when he opened the Gnowangerup Memorial Hall in 1923. In 1927 he married Dorothy Bradshaw (8 Mar 1891 - 2 Feb 1984) who was the Matron at Gnowangerup Hospital. May’s brother Alfred Bradshaw died at Gallipoli. Dorothy served as a nurse in the AIF in WW1.

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 PEB FLANAGAN   & HAY STACK AT "LONE PINE"           #3
 

PEB FLANAGAN & "TOMMY" THE HORSE             #4
 

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A crack shot, Elworthy was a member of the Gnowangerup Rifle Club, and was a member of the VDC in Gnowangerup during WWII. Peb and Dorothy struggled on the small farm. They kept pigs and cows to supplement their income.

One of the Treasure children had difficulty saying Elworthy, instead calling him ‘Peb’. He was known in Gnowangerup by this name. Peb later took on some contract farm labouring with neighbour and good friend Donald Stewart in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s. His daughter May remembers him as being a hard working and meticulous person. When he passed away he had six grandsons and a granddaughter.

 DOROTHY, PEB & MAY FLANAGAN             #6
 

"LONE PINE"             #7
 

Peb died in Katanning on 25 July 1964 aged 71 and is buried in the Katanning Cemetery Grave No. 399. Dorothy moved to Perth to be with May in 1970 and passed away in 1984 aged 92.

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References:                 Article:      May Flanagan

                                  Image:    1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7           May Flanagan

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