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[8] CLIVE EDWIN TILBURY (1918-1996)
Son of George Arthur (1875-1944) and Dulcie Mildred (nee Blacket) (1895-1957).
Father of:
Lloyd Geoffrey and
Sally Anna.
1918. Clive was born 15-Jun in Sydney and educated at Canterbury High School and Sydney Church of England Grammar School (SCEGS), also known as ‘Shore’ school.
1935. In June Clive joined the staff of the Commonwealth Bank and remained with them until 1951.
1937. Clive joined the Militia 7th Field Brigade (horse-drawn field artillery) as a Gunner, No. 268326. The Australian Citizens Military Forces (CMF) , also known as the Militia, had been maintained since World War I. Training consisted of unit training one night a week, weekend camps throughout the year and an annual two-week camp. The uniform comprised navy blue tunics with brass buttons and khaki corduroy riding breeches sheathed in black leggings and boots. Teams of six horses were used to trot the guns into position under the control of three mounted drivers. Two men were seated on the ammunition limber, followed by the gun. Once in position the limber and gun were detached and the horses trotted to wagon lines under their drivers, while the gunners positioned the gun and limber and prepared to fire.
1939. Australia’s involvement in World War II did not begin until 3-Sep. Until 1942 the volunteer force could only be called on to fight within Australia, when this was extended to include those islands between Australia and the Equator. The AIF, also a volunteer force, could be sent to fight anywhere in the world.
1940. The 7th Field Brigade (Militia) formed the core of the 2/6th Australian Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA), 7th Australian Division of the 2th AIF. The nucleus of the Regiment came from the 1st, 7th, 14th, 18th and 21st Military Artillery Brigades.
On 18-Apr Clive enlisted at Greta Camp NSW with the AIF 2/6th Australian Field Regiment Artillery, 7th Division, No. NX13782. He served with the AIF in the Middle East, Papua New Guinea and Borneo until Oct-1945.
1941. In September, whilst serving in the Middle East, Clive was promoted to the rank of Bdr [what does this stand for?].
1942. Clive left the Middle East on the Halvidar, embarking on 12-Feb for the eight-week journey to 4MD [where is this? Adelaide M? Don?].
In June both Clive and Lloyd were granted 10 days Home Leave, and on 6-Sep both departed Brisbane on the Jason Lee, arriving in Port Moresby 11 days later. Clive remained in Papua New Guinea for 16 months and in Feb-1943 was promoted to the rank of Sergeant.
1944. Clive left Papua New Guinea on 17-Jan on the Stephen Girard and arrived back in Brisbane two weeks later. Throughout the year Clive suffered from bouts of the malaria he had contracted whilst in Papua New Guinea. During the year he met Heather Stark and on 27-Sep they were married at the Albert St. Methodist Church in Brisbane.
1945. On 9-Jun Clive left Brisbane on the Howell Lykes and spent nine days travelling to Morotai [Borneo?], where he spent three weeks before travelling to Balikpapan on the Morotai-Lst. He remained in Balikpapan (Longser) [what was Longser?] until 23-Aug, arriving back in Brisbane 4-Sep on the HMAS Kanimbla. Sergeant Clive Tilbury was discharged from the 2/6th Field Regiment on 6-Oct as a result of demobilisation.
1945. After the war Clive and Heather lived in Sydney where Clive resumed his job with the Commonwealth Bank.
Lloyd was born in Ryde and Sally in Strathfield.
1951. After Clive resigned from the Commonwealth Bank in November the family moved to a 5-acre flower farm at Eight Mile Plains, Queensland. Small crops and citrus were added to make the farm a viable concern.
1956. After several flower crops failed due to hailstorms and cyclones Clive took up a position with Brownbuilt and remained with them until he retired as Sales Manager in Feb-1977.
Clive was elected President of Brisbane Legacy in 1966 and President of the Sunnybank Bowls Club in 1969. Until his death in 1996 he lived in Sunnybank, Brisbane and was a Life Member of the Sunnybank Bowls Club.
[8] HEATHER WINIFRED (Heb) TILBURY (nee STARK) (1921-1996)
Daughter of Lt. Col. Alick Vernie () and Florence Isabel (nee Noble) ().
Mother of:
Lloyd Geoffrey and
Sally Anna.
1921. Heather was born 5-Jun in East Brisbane, where her father, Lt. Col. Alick Vernie Stark was employee of the family business of Allen & Stark. Her sister Shirley was born four years later.
Heather and Shirley were educated at Buranda State School and then at Somerville House.
1930s. The family moved to 6 The Drive, Bardon, Brisbane and Heather’s father became the first Aide-de-Camp and later official Secretary to Sir Leslie Wilson, Governor of Queensland.
c1943. Heather began nursing training at St. Martens Hospital but before she could qualify war was declared and she enlisted in the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service (AAMWS). She was posted to Greenslopes Hospital and in Aug-1944 transferred to the 7th Orthopaedic Hospital in Toowoomba, where she met Clive. They were married six weeks later.
At the time of her marriage to Clive, Heather was living with her parents at Bardon. Heather held the rank of Sergeant but went AWL after being refused leave to join Clive at his posting on the Atherton Tableland prior to being posted overseas. She was demoted to Corporal, much to the chagrin of her father, a Lieutenant Colonel.
Son Lloyd was born, to be joined three years later by sister Sally.
1956. Heb used her strength, tenacity and practical sense to work the flower farm at Eight Mile Plains on her own during the week and with the family at weekends.
1961. Both Heb’s parents died within a week, the shock took its toll and the family moved from the farm to a house recently puchased by Heb’s parents at 17 Mitchell St., Sunnybank. Heb became involved in voluntary work as a part-time teacher’s aide at the Queensland Sub-Normal Children’s Centre and as president of the Parents’ and Friends’ Association at Brisbane Girls’ Grammar School, where Sally was a student.
Heb was invited to join the permanent staff at the Wacol Sheltered Workshop for Autistic Young Adults and later at the R.J. Andrews
Special School at Sunnybank, where she remained until her retirement in 1981. Her artistic talents shone through when she became interested in spinning and weaving and joined the Queensland Association, where she became the membership secretary for two years. She also conducted monthly instruction sessions with blind people at Braille House.
1981. On retirement Heb spent a great deal of time weaving and in the garden, her other great love, which she considered “good for the soul”.
1992. Slowly declining in health as a result of Alzheimers Disease, Heb was looked after by Clive. With a rapid deterioration in her
condition at the end of 1995 and the need for Clive to have major heart surgery, Heb was admitted to Salvin Park Nursing Home.
1996. Heb died of heart failure in Brisbane on 6-Aug. At the funeral service held for her at St. David’s Church, Coopers Plains, Brisbane on 9-Aug her son Lloyd, who delivered the eulogy, said of her:
“There are many things we will remember about Mum, especially her lovely, cheery nature and ready smile, her support and
understanding and her ability to always be there for all of us without interfering, her sense of the ridiculous and her spontaneous infectious laugh, never more obvious than during family gatherings, especially when Mum and her sister Shirley, who were very close, would regale us with tales of the past.”
Heather’s younger sister Shirley, known affectionately as Foss, lives in Taringa, Brisbane.
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[9] LLOYD GEOFFREY TILBURY
[9] ANN ROSSLYN TILBURY (nee CARTWRIGHT)
[9] SALLY ANNA GRIFFITHS (nee TILBURY)
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[8] LLOYD DAVID TILBURY (1919-1993)
Son of George Arthur (1875-1944) and Dulcie Mildred (nee Blacket) (1895-1957).
Father of:
David Frier,
James Clive,
Linden Jane,
Louise Helen.
1919. Lloyd was born 2-Jul at his parents home, ‘Cooinda’, Waters Rd., Neutral Bay, Sydney. He was of solid build, though both Dulcie and George were slender. From an early age he was interested in wireless and built himself a radio; he also excelled in sport.
Lloyd was educated at SCEGS (‘Shore’), where he served as a Sergeant in the SCEGS Cadet Corps, and in 1937 commenced Law School at Sydney University.
1940. He enlisted with the AIF at Ingleburn (No. NX22356) in May with old and close friend Robert Hope, as Hitler began to move into France. They served with the 2/6th Field Regiment in the Middle East and then in Papua New Guinea. In October, whilst undergoing training at Bathurst, Lloyd was appointed Specialist Group II (Signaller). On 14-Nov they left Australia on the HMS Orion, arriving in the Middle East 18-Dec.
1941. Lloyd spent several periods with the Signals Infantry Battalion AIF and the Artillery Training Regiment, returning to the 2/6th Field Regiment in June. In July he was graded as a Group II Signaller, in October promoted to the rank of Acting BOR and in November appointed L/Sgt.
1942. On 8-Feb he left the Middle East at Suez on the USS Mt.Vernon, arriving at 4MD [Adelaide,4 Mdon??] on 10-Mar. In June both Clive and Lloyd were granted 10 days Home Leave and on 6-Sep both departed for Port Moresby on the Jason Lee.
1943. Lloyd contracted scrub typhus in February and malaria in March. In February he was promoted to the rank of Acting Sergeant. During the war Lloyd corresponded with his cousin Ralph Blacket, who was also serving in Papua New Guinea. Ralph sent Lloyd an army circular regarding the newly formed Australian Diplomatic Corps, prompting him to apply. Lloyd travelled to Port Moresby (and stayed with Ralph) for the interview, which resulted in him being selected as a cadet. On 3-Aug Acting Sergeant Lloyd Tilbury was discharged from war service for appointment to the Department of External Affairs.
1943/44. Lloyd’s first diplomatic posting was as Secretary to the Australian High Commissioner, Sir Iven Mackay, in New Delhi. The passenger ship carrying him to the posting, the Tanda, was sunk by torpedo off the coast of South India. Lloyd had taken with him a large and expensive wardrobe which he had thought appropriate to his new position, but had to dive into the sea in his pyjama trousers. Before jumping from the ship he found on deck an elderly Australian woman, going to India for a last visit to see family members living there. Lloyd tried to talk her into jumping from the ship with him but she was adamant that she would go down with the ship and Lloyd, at the last moment, had to jump from the ship without her, a memory he was never able to forget. During his time in India he travelled on horseback over then almost inaccessible parts of the Himalayas, the Burma war was being fought and the end of the Raj was approaching.
1946. Lloyd attended the Paris Peace Conference on 29-Jul with the Australian Delegation. He then worked with Prof. Mark Oliphant in connection with the Atomic Energy Commission; travelled to London with Prime Minister, Ben Chifley, whose great love was steam engines, to attend the Prime Minister’s Conference, and travelled to New York with the brilliant but eccentric Dr. Bert Evatt to attend
a meeting of the Security Council. Lloyd was a wonderful raconteur and his stories of the experiences he had with Dr. Evatt at United Nations conferences were told with great gusto and much humour; they were all astonishing and most were hilarious. Further details of the life of ’The Doc’ Evatt are included in Background Information.
1947. After leaving External Affairs Lloyd was admitted as a solicitor. In the same year he was elected inaugural president of the Manly Apex Club and on 11-Apr married Jean Frier Grahame at the SCEGS chapel. At the time he was a Law Clerk living at 6 Shellbank Pd., Cremorne, Sydney. He practised law for five years in partnership with Howard Marks, the father of an army friend at Manly.
In 1952 the family moved to ‘Pine Tree’, a 1,300 acre property between Armidale and Guyra and Lloyd became a grazier. As a result of the adversities of the 1950s Lloyd began the Armidale legal practice, trying to run the property at the same time.
The family's love of horses resulted in annual 16-mile rides from the property to the Armidale Pony Club, which was a huge event in the calendar. The long hot days resulted in extremely sore muscles and occasional cases of sunstroke; nights were spent in dormitories on the
showground, with ghost-stories and possums abundant. In later years the horse population swelled to 22, local shows were attended and the children instructed at pony camp.
1972?. The practice flourished, taking up most of Lloyd’s time, and the family moved to Armidale to live. It became more and more
difficult to run the property and after some years it was sold. The family rented a two-storey English-style residence (complete with driveway designed for carriages) in Jeffrey St. for 12 months before purchasing a house in Brown St. At this time David owned a unit on Oak Tree Drive, which sister Louise shared for 12 months of her years at university.
1975. Lloyd ceased to work full time and became a consultant, handing over the practice to his eldest son David. They moved to their
newly-built residence at ‘Kinloch’, a small property four miles out of Armidale on the Blue Hole Rd. Lloyd had become deeply interested in Dressage after moving to Armidale, joined the Armidale Dressage Club with his daughters and spent many happy hours with his horse Minstrel, learning the finer points of the art. The ’horse era’ ended in 1978 with the sale of the property
‘Kinloch’.
1976. Lloyd retired at the age of 55, having been diagnosed with emphysema several years earlier. He fought the disease, became interested in health foods and played golf daily for many years until arthritis of the hip forced him to look at other forms of exercise.
1981?. Lloyd spent the later years of his life looking for a climate suitable to his health. He and Jean moved to Lismore, building a house on Tregeagle Road at Lindendale, near Alstonville. They remained in Lismore for two years and then moved to Buderim, where they found the humidity overpowering and after 12 months purchased a property at Delphin St., Kenmore. Two years later they moved to a unit in St. Lucia overlooking the Brisbane River and Lloyd began playing Bowls. Two years later they joined daughter Linden in Canberra,
purchasing a Willemson-designed house in Kambah. They loved Canberra but eventually the cold winters became too much and after four years they moved to Broadwater Court at Kincumber, a new retirement village near Gosford on the NSW Central Coast.
Lloyd was a member of the Council of the University of New England (UNE), president of the Armidale Riding Club and ringmaster of the Armidale Show. He played tennis at state level, loved riding, golf, cricket and later bowls. He looked forward to Australian Wallaby rugby games for days and spoke with great humour of ’putting on his boots’ before a game. He was passionate about classical music and maintained a catalogue of his vast collection. He was also passionate about literature and language, could give a
dictionary definition of any word and was comfortable reading French classics.
1993. Lloyd died of cancer 17-May at home in Kincumber at the age of 73, on the same day his old friend Maurice (Brud) Wright died of a blood clot after a bump to the head on ‘Dyamberin’, their property in Armidale. Lloyd was cremated 19-May at the Palmdale Crematorium, Ourimbah. The Honourable Justice Robert Hope gave a tribute to Lloyd at the memorial service held for him in Armidale and said of him:
“Perhaps his most obvious characteristic was his love of life and his exuberance. He was not a man to do things in half measures. This could be seen, and I have no doubt will be remembered, in his glorious and infectious laughter, laughter which even the restrictions of his last difficult years did little to limit. This laughter was but an expression of his exuberance, and of the intensity of his life. ... He was a person whose exuberance was combined with wit and wisdom, generosity and compassion, to produce a personality which led people who met him to fall under his spell.”
[8] JEAN FRIER TILBURY (nee GRAHAME)
Daughter of George Frier (1888-c1968) and Daisy Muriel (nee Thompson)(1894-c1970).
Mother of:
David Frier,
James Clive,
Linden Jane,
Louise Helen.
1921. Jean was born 24-Aug in the Nurse A Dennis’ Nursing Home, Waimanu Rd., Suva. Her father George conducted his legal practice as a solicitor at The Ridge, St.Fort St., Suva and was elected the Mayor of Suva in the years 19? and 19?.
Jean and her older sister Helen travelled by ship to school at Abbotsleigh, Wahroonga NSW once a year.
Other school holidays were spent with friends in the country.
1939-1943. Jean was awarded an Economics degree at Sydney University.
1944. For a short period after obtaining her degree, Jean was employed as a statistical clerk with the Australian Gaslight Company (AGC). Following this she was employed as a records clerk in the Department of Commerce & Agriculture, then on the Australian Meat Board until shortly after her marriage.
Both David and James were born while Lloyd and Jean were living at New St., Balgowlah. After they moved from the property to Armidale, Jean’s parents bought a house in College St. with a view to retiring there, but the cold winter drove them to return to Sydney after only a year.
c1966. Jean was instrumental in setting up the UNE Economics Faculty Seminar Library and carried out the role of Economics Faculty Librarian for two years. Her father’s pending death forced her resignation and she spent the final weeks with him in Sydney. She returned to the Library a year or so later, following a period in Lloyd’s office as legal clerk.
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Jean’s parents George and Daisy were married on 11-Dec-1918 in Newcastle. George, a solicitor, was born in Newcastle in 1888, Daisy in Stanmore, Sydney in 1894. George was the son of James and Hannah (nee ?) Grahame. Daisy was the daughter of ? and ? (nee ?) Thompson.
Jean’s sister Helen Frier married Ronald Lee (c1917-2000) and had four children: Grahame, Alastair, Stuart (1953-c1987) and
Melissa.
Helen and Ron live in Laurieston NSW; Grahame lives in Sydney; Alastair and Helen (nee Horsley) live in Sydney and have three children: twins Edward and Thomas, and Robert; Stuart lived at Walcha and married Suzanne McMillan, who was pregnant with their daughter Philippa when Stuart was killed [2-Jul-1987?] while flying his plane on the property at Walcha; Melissa and Andrew Elliot live in Walcha and have four children: Dougal, Stuart, Camilla and Nicola.
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[9] DAVID FRIER TILBURY
[9] CELIA HILARY TILBURY (nee WILEMAN)
[9] JAMES CLIVE TILBURY
[9] JUDITH HELEN TILBURY (nee HUNTER)
[9] LINDEN JANE TILBURY
[9] LOUISE HELEN CAHILL (nee TILBURY)
[9] DAVID LLOYD CAHILL
