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Frank Blackmore Wallis of England Australia was married to Eleanor Frances Galt. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Frank Blackmore Wallis.

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    ALICE SPRINGS PIONEER RANKS of original Alice Springs 'pioneers are thinning, and one to drop out recently was Mr. Frank Wallis, who died at his home at East Brighton, Victoria, at the age of 77. I spent an entertaining afternoon with his brother Albert and his wife at Moseley street, Glenelg, last week. Albert, ' by the way, has lived there for 17 years. He told me that Frank went to Alice Springs about 1884. A few years later he started the first store there — in Stuart Town it was called, as distinct from the telegraph station out at the Springs. Later he opened branches at Arltunga and Oodnadatta. In time he became Known as the 'Camel King' with a string of 200. When he decided to retire Frank Wallis handed the business over to George Wilkinson and Harry Gepp, who subsequently converted it into Wallis, Fogaity Ltd. Many men enjoyed the privilege of a start in life and generous credit Frank Wallis gave them. Incidentally, he took the first citrus trees to Alice Springs. He once did a camel ride in record quick time from there to Oodnadatta after his brotherin law (Sam Roberts, now of Hyde Park), had sent him a wire telling him his mother was seriously ill in Adelaide. GREAT ADVENTURES MANY people do not realise what stout -hearts the early Aus tralian bushmen had; the type survives, though. Albert Wallis told me last week that he was a youth when he joined his brother Frank in 1886. A' year later they started with camels for the Kimberley goldfields. Reach ing Attack CreeK, they met a lot of diggers returning to Queens^ land, and learnt that the field had petered out. 'We turned down Attack Creek on to the tableland country, went past Anthony Lagoon and down into the Gulf of Carpentaria,' Albert said. 'We loaded up with rations and a few stores, went up to Brunette Downs, and back into Port McArthur to load up again. Camels could waltz over that .country, but the teams ?we had went right into the, slush of the wet season just breaking up. and could not travel. We sold out on the tableland, came back to Corella. Downs, struck out across country west to the over land telegraph line, and returned to Alice Springs. Then the rubies broke out at Hart Range, and we went out to the field. That petered out, and back to the Alice we went. Shortly after that they surveyed the township. Frank went to town, and bought a block for himself and one for me, and started the store. The whole plain 'was cassia scrub, and we had to clear it. I went out to Giles's Hole, started a station there, and a few years later took up Love's Creek, which Lou Bloomfield has now.' NEARLY PERISHED IN the drought of 1893 Frank and Albert Wallis and Charlie South nearly did a perish when they started from Love's Creek to go to Glenormiston (Q.) to see what the country was like. When they got over the Tokay Ranges, on the border of South Australia, they had no more maps of the country, and made in east to Wanditta waterhole, where they saw hun dreds of James Tyson's cattle dead. Their horses began to perish, and they turned back. In the last stages they were 10 days without a thing to eat. Frank Wallis won the Alice Springs Cup with Exile II., which brother Albert bred; he wasted and rode it himself. Albert Wallis won three cups straight with Reveller. The 1909 trophy, which he has, was presented by James Buchanan & Co., whisky distillers. Frank Wallis and his father once took 100 head of horses to Darwin. They sold the mob, put all the money on the father's horse, Dal housie, which won the cup, scooped the pool, and broke the club, after which racing was dormant for years. , The Advertiser Tuesday 3 November 1908 Mrs. Wallis, wife of Mr. Frank B. Wallis, of Alice Springs, died in Melbourne on 'Monday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Wallis recently came to Adelaide from Central Australia, where they had spent several years, and they intended settling near the city. Mrs. Wallis found-it necessary to undergo a serious operation, which was successful, and she went to Melbourne a few weeks ago to recuperate. There illness overtook her again, and she underwent another operation, which proved fatal. Mrs. Wallis was genial and kind-hearted, and she. made friends wherever she went. Much sympathy is felt for Mr. Wallis. There is not a better known man in Central Australia, where he has spent practically the whole of his life, and where he has an extensive station property.
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Wallis, Phyllis (Sep 23, 1917 - Jan 24, 2004) Wallis, Thomas (Jan 2, 1911 - Jun 1977) Wallis, John (Aug 10, 1905 - Oct 1971) Wallis, Lillian (Dec 6, 1925 - Apr 30, 2009) Wallis, Marilyn (Mar 3, 1932 - Nov 6, 1995) Wallis, Annie (May 2, 1876 - Mar 1969) Wallis, William (Aug 30, 1952 - Nov 1985) Wallis, Emma (Sep 27, 1901 - Mar 1978) Wallis, Roger (Mar 29, 1958 - Jul 30, 2008) Wallis, Doris (Jun 15, 1925 - Aug 27, 1991)
Wallis, Marion (Mar 27, 1903 - Oct 19, 1997) Wallis, Mary (Jun 25, 1897 - Feb 1988) Wallis, Elsie (Feb 14, 1910 - Feb 1, 1993) Wallis, Joseph (Apr 19, 1903 - Mar 14, 1990) Wallis, Richard (Apr 28, 1909 - Jun 1981) Wallis, Carlton (Jan 31, 1887 - Aug 1963) Wallis, Walter (Jul 26, 1888 - May 1970) Wallis, Olive (Oct 15, 1909 - Jun 1987) Wallis, Peter (Jul 28, 1916 - Sep 13, 1999) Wallis, James (Feb 13, 1929 - Jul 6, 2002)
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