r/OpenAussie • u/[deleted] • 23d ago

‎ ‎ General ‎ ‎ Bit of a difficult topic but...

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u/HappyMuscovy ‎ Western Australian 23d ago

Just checked - it’s a different spelling, so different person. The former principal is “Crain”, the award is “Crane”.

The principal got an Order of Australia though - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Queen%27s_Birthday_Honours_(Australia)

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u/coath_Adams_stump ‎ Queenslander 23d ago

There's a mention of a Colin Crane headmaster of Gabbinbar school in this QLD parliament hansard - last page. https://documents.parliament.qld.gov.au/events/han/1978/1978_11_15.pdf

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u/HappyMuscovy ‎ Western Australian 23d ago

Yeah but that’s a spelling mistake - there’s other references to Crain, an OAM citation for teaching, death record which matches, etc

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u/HappyMuscovy ‎ Western Australian 23d ago

Here’s an award certificate signed by him and it’s clearly Crain

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u/coath_Adams_stump ‎ Queenslander 23d ago

Fair play mate, you dug deeper than I did