Men of Iron:A Tribute to Courage
The pay was minimum, as was the custom of the times for young people and the work swinging for long periods heavy hammers moulding hot iron, back-breaking work whilst developing strength, timing and muscles. He learnt how to make horse shoes and fit some often fractious horses and also how to innovate and adapt old style machinery to modern times and requirements.
He was amongst the group that devised a tandem of steel rollers which would remove corn cobs from rows of corn, convey them on a frame to an adapted threshing, cleaning and bagging machine.
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He was an innovator who went and worked on a farm to ascertain what the problem was - first-hand experience was the best educator. The resultant machine saved many, many hours of hand-pulling corn and could do in one day what would take a team of six men three weeks to harvest.
In a determined effort to further develop his skills he worked as a panel beater with the local Allora panel beaters at Allora, Wilson and Rigby. Notwithstanding the hard work, Murray found time to train as a boxer and refined his skills first displayed as a schoolboy when he won the Darling Downs Schoolboy Championship. Later on when trained by old time show tent fighter Andy Neilsen, he defeated in state title events such well-known boxers as Bernie Leahy, D.
He was unfortunate that, given it was the amateur era and there were insufficient funds to send a full team to the Games, he was unfortunate with several others to miss out in participating in the Games.
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He was the halfback in the Allora Senior Rugby League team, which was undefeated and won all the trophies in the Central Downs and Pittsworth and District Rugby League Competition in and he was chosen in the rep team. At the well-attended funeral service at St David's Anglican Church Allora, where temporary shelter was provided to accommodate friends and relatives to pay their final farewells as the church was filled to overflowing.
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Never a person who in country folklore never let the grass grow under his feet found time with fellow Allorite, Brian Nicholls to win the Queensland B grade table tennis title. He was at various times a member of representative cricket, basketball and rifle shooting and at the time of his passing he was an active member of the Allora Bowls Club and the Clifton Golf Club.
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He had a special passion for imparting fairness and good manners to young in the area, of caring for horses and animals. In all of these pursuits, he benefited and was always proud to acknowledge the cooperation and help of his wife Lenore, whom he married in He and his wife Lenore passed onto their children all those attributes of character which were so integral to their lives and all. In due course, because he never switched off the lights of reality and drew the blinds on challenges, he became a beekeeper, travelling with Lyn and the truckload of bees to the vast plains and herbage of western Queensland, which on account of his trade skills he was able to assist the owners as a way of saying thanks in repairing plant and equipment, particularly buildings and pumping equipment.
He has passed away and leaves behind a legacy of honesty, integrity, fairness, compassion and loyalty.
He is survived by his wife Lenore, children Sue, Alan, Anne and nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. In recent years he helped his wife Lenore with her sight difficulties, reliving the love and companionship she had bestowed on him on their long life together. Council News Mayor Paul Antonio fought back tears as he delivered the apology. News Last of Mel Martin's stock donated to Collectables.
Breaking Truck rolls on Toowoomba range causing traffic congestion. When the scheme fails, he blackmails the Unteroffizier Reginald Beckwith , who thinks he was responsible for a devastating fire that Coward had actually engineered. Coward extracts an extraordinary privilege in being able to go to and from the neighbouring town without an escort. When he makes contact with an attractive Polish resistance agent Maria Perschy , he attempts to leave Germany by rail with his new friend providing assistance, but he is captured at a railway station.
After the failure of that escape, Coward, along with his other escape partner, Pope, are assigned to the IG Farben work camp.
They manage to escape again by masquerading as workmen clearing rubble in a rural area. After learning that the American front line is only a mile away, they steal an unattended fire engine in order to get past the enemy soldiers blocking their escape. A German troop convoy on the road moves aside to allow them to speed past to get to a non-existent fire, and they drive off to freedom.
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Serving as technical advisor during the filming, Coward also has a cameo appearance in the film during a party scene. The film is shot entirely in England; street scenes were filmed in the Chiltern market towns of Amersham and Chesham. The film raised some debate among ex-prisoners of war. There are no known survivors of any of Coward's escapes, and the National Ex-Prisoner of War Association in their Autumn newsletter suggested that some of the stories in his biography might have happened to other men in the camps, with some events "borrowed" for the book and, subsequently, for the film.
He had been a fellow prisoner with Coward.
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He further claimed that some of the film's episodes were based on his father's real-life exploits. The original cinema release version of The Password Is Courage contained a sequence set in Auschwitz concentration camp , illustrated by drawings. The Password is Courage received mixed reviews from critics because this true life story of a prisoner of war was done in a jocular vein; it was considered inauthentic as a result.
The review in Variety noted: Result is that what could have been a telling tribute to a character of guts and initiative, the kind that every war produces, lacks conviction". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Password is Courage Theatrical release poster. Suggested explanations include that the events described did not happen, that the sequence is inappropriate in an otherwise broad comedy, and that a shorter run time for television syndication required the removal of this self-standing sub-plot.