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Banjo Paterson

Died in 1941

Andrew Barton Paterson was born on 17 February 1864 at Narrambla, near Orange, and grew up at Illalong, near Yass. A lawyer in Sydney from 1886, he signed his verse The Banjo, after the name of his favourite horse. A war correspondent in South Africa from 1899, then in China in 1901, he edited the Sydney Evening News from 1903 to 1908 and settled on a property in the Yass region. During the Great War, he drove an ambulance in France, then served in a remount unit in the Middle East, where he became a major. He died in Sydney on 5 February 1941.

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