"Jack" Charles Jackson BACKMAN
Born 3 February 1902 in Boulder, Western Australia [16]
Son of Frederick Charles BACKMAN and Clara Jane JACKSON [15]
Worked in mines on the Kalgoorlie goldfields and then farmed at Burracoppin [P54]
Married Lydia Irene WILSON in Merredin on 3 June 1933 [P54]
Resided in Burracoppin until enlisting in the Australian Army on 26 June 1942[16]
Private WX28157 in the 5th Ordnance Vehicle Park of the Australian Army Ordnance Corps during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 26 November 1945 [16]
After the war sold his Burracoppin farm and worked on the Rabbit Proof Fence and at Agricultural Research Station in Salmon Gums [P54]
Farmer of Upsan Downs Farm on the Waddi Estate in Carnamah from 1950 [P54]
In 1950 was allocated farmland through the War Service Land Settlement Scheme on the Waddi Estate in Carnamah [8: page 22] [P54]
The Waddi Estate was Gustav LIEBE's former 54,000 acre farm across parts of Waddy Forest, Coorow, Latham, Perenjori, Bunjil [P1]
He was said to have named the property Upsan Downs as he anticipated they'd be having ups and downs on the farm [P54]
His farm was the 4,647 acre Victoria Location 9973 on the south side of the Carnamah-Bunjil Road [3] [62]
Financial Member 1952-1971 and Committee Member in 1954 and 1969 of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society [13] [58]
President in 1954 and a Committee Member in 1957 of Carnamah's branch of the Farmers' Union of WA [0: image 04734] [4: 5-Apr-1957]
Member of the Carnamah Golf Club in 1954 [0: image 04734]
Inaugural President of the Carnamah Pasture Improvement Group in 1956 and 1957 [7: page 236] [4: 5-Apr-1957]
Became a member of the Carnamah Masonic Lodge No.150 WAC on 21 November 1958 [96]
Obtained the telephone on the farm in 1961 - was telephone number Carnamah East 215 [60]
Served on the Carnamah Shire Council representing the North Ward from 1960 to 1965 [7: page 112]
Secretary and Treasurer 1963-1965 and later Life Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society 1963-1965 [13] [58]
By 1964 had retired to a house in Caron Street, which was telephone number Carnamah-102 [60]
Farewelled from Carnamah at a farewell dinner put on by the Shire of Carnamah on 4 May 1973 [7: page 105]
Sold his house at 28 Caron Street in Carnamah to Kenneth W. McCOOKE [P175]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Osborne Park [2]
Father of Margaret and John [P54]
Died 3 February 1975; ashes interred at Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth (EC Section, Garden of Remembrance, 5, 32) [2]
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Charles Jackson Backman' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 18 November 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/charles-jackson-backman [reference list] |
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