The Cresswell Archive
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Thanks to an introduction by DHRS member Nick Trudgian,
Dick Cresswell, probably Australian's most famous WW2 fighter pilot,
gave these rails to the DHRS for safe keeping.
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Rail Marked:
A.B.R.
Gauhati Nuzira
Last link
Mrs.Cresswell
7 - 6 -1900
(A.B.R. stands for Assam Bengal Railway)
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Rail Marked:
A.B.R.
Hill Section
Last Rail
linked in
May 10th 1903
G.B. Cresswell Exc:Engr.
This railway ran between Badarpur & Lumding, through 33 tunnels & covered ways on gradients as sever as 1 in 37. Connection was made at Dyong (now Dayang or Dayung) Bridge.
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Rail Marked:
D.H.R.
Extensions
Last Rail linked
24.2.15
Present:
G.B. Cresswell
G.M & E.N.C.
C.C. Royston R.E.
T. Pkone A.Y.O.
G.C. Patterson A.E.N.
A.Y. Linger Y.D.O.
(on reverse)
This piece commemorates the last rail link for the D.H.R. extensions on
24 February 1915
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These artefacts are presently held by the Treasurer.
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