Harry Moseby

[Greg Blood]

Hello Julie

We believe we may have found another indigenous Paralympian - amputee Harry Moseby who was an

amputee in the 1976 Toronto team. At the time he was living in WA but originally from Torres Strait.

Eric was on the 1976 team. Can you ask him if he know anything about Harry ?

I hope both of you are going well.

Regards

Greg 

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On 21 Aug 2018, at 4:29 pm, Julie Russell <julier...@outlook.com.au> wrote:

What about Erich Hubel?

On 21 Aug. 2018, at 10:16 am, Tony Naar <tony...@gmail.com> wrote:

Laura,

 

I will give this some more thought, but one that I know that is not easy to find the trail for is Marion O’Brien (nee Edwards). She competed for England at the 1960 Rome Paralympics and at the 1962 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games in Perth. She then married Australian Chris O’Brien (who she had met in Rome) and competed for Australia at the 1964 and 1968 Paralympics before the relationship ended and she moved back to England. I think she should be the same O’Brien who again competed for GB in 1972 but I am not sure about that.  

 

Her Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_O%27Brien) is very basic and misses entirely her Rome and Perth participation (and medals), her name change and personal history.

 

There is footage of her wedding to Chris at the end of the official film that was made about the 1962 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games.

 

Another off the top of my head is Abebe Fekadu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abebe_Fekadu). His is a great story.

 

Also Tu Huynh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_Huynh).

 

It would be great if Elizabeth, Lyn and Libby, as well as Julie and Eric, could give this some thought, as I am sure that they will be aware of others from the 60s, 70s and 80s that we may otherwise miss.

 

Just wondering why you are putting this together?

 

Regards,

 

TN

 

Tony Naar

Facilitator

Australian Paralympic History Project

0418 684 108

tony...@gmail.com

 

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From: ho...@googlegroups.com <ho...@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Laura Hale
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2018 3:33 AM
To: ho...@googlegroups.com
Subject: ::HOPAU:: Australian immigrant Paralympians

 

Hey,

 

I am trying to create a list of Paralympians who are immigrants.  I was wondering if anyone knew of an Australians who are immigrants who are missing from the list below?

 

 

Name	emigrated	immigrated	age immigrated	year immigrated	reasons immigrated	when immigrated relative to disability acquisition	when became EAWD relative to immigrated
Ahmed Kelly	Iraq	Australia	9	2000	adoption	after disability acquired	after immigrated
Dominic Monypenny	Great Britain	Australia				after disability acquired	after immigrated
Ella Pardy	England	Australia
Guy Harrison-Murray	England	Australia		2011	parents immigrated	after disability acquired	before immigrated
Joany Badenhorst	South Africa	Australia				before disability acquired	after immigrated
Joany Badenhorst	South Africa	Australia				immigration around medical treatment for acquired disability	after immigrated
Jonty O'Callaghan	England	Australia			parents immigrated	after disability acquired	disability sportsperson but not EAWD
Katherine Downie	Scotland	Australia			parents immigrated	after disability acquired	after immigrated
Katherine Proudfoot	New Zealand	Australia	8			after disability acquired
Katja Dedekind	South Africa	Australia			parents immigrated	after disability acquired	after immigrated
Michael Gallagher	Scotland	Australia				before disability acquired
Mikko Tamminen	Finland	Australia
Nang Nguyen	Vietnam	Australia
Naz Erdem	Turkey	Australia				after disability acquired	after immigrated
Richard Colman	Norway	Australia			parents immigrated	after disability acquired	after immigrated
Robin Paisley	Scotland	Australia		1947		after disability acquired	after immigrated
Sam Petterson	New Zealand	Australia			parents immigrated	after disability acquired	after immigrated
Sarah Edmiston	New Zealand	Australia					after immigrated

Sincerely,

Laura Hale

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[Julie Russell]

Hi Greg

Eric is in Qld at the moment but I have forwarded your message and will remind him when next he rings.

All good here

Cheers, Julie