John Badcock
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Background
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
John Badcock was a constable at Ballarat, and was involved with the storming of the Eureka Stockade on 03 December 1854. in a witness statement he said he jumped over the stockade and saw Raffaello Carboni going round the corner of a tent. Badcock presented his firelock at him, but it missed fire. Badcock did not see him again until he was a prisoner. He was armed with something like a pike. Badcock also saw John Josephs and James Beattie prisoners about twenty paces outside the Eureka Stockade.
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Post 1854 Experiences
See also
Further Reading
Blake, Gregory, To Pierce the Tyrant's Heart,Australian Military History Publications, 2009.
References
- ↑ The Argus, 11 December 1854.
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