Three closing German lines finishing the portrait of Willi's Melbourne friends; rest of page blank
Translated from Willi's German.
...was a fine person, and we had good times together for as long as he was in Melbourne. Father Hinchcliff, the gambler and merry bachelor.
Willi's original German, as transcribed.
war ein finer Mensch und wir hatten gute
Zeiten solange er in Melb. war. Vater Hintchhat(?)
der Spieler and lustige Junggeselle.
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People: Willi Distel, Jack Atkinson, Father Hinchcliff
Places: Melbourne, Bendigo
Interesting facts
Bendigo. Bendigo, home of Willi's friend Jack Atkinson, is a regional city about 150 km north of Melbourne that grew wealthy in the great Victorian gold rush of the 1850s.
