Adolphus Hirschler

Walter E. Pidgeon, Illustration from The Eureka Stockade by Raffaello Carboni, Sunnybrook Press, 1942, offset print.
Art Gallery of Ballarat, purchased 1994.

Hirschler was a storekeeper at Ballarat in 1854.

Hirschler was a witness examined during the report of the Board appointed to enquire into circumstances connected with the riot at Ballarat, and the burning of James Bentley's Eureka Hotel, ^[1] and gave evidence during the 1855 Goldfields Commission.