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The Bunjevic family from Bonegilla to Somers

Bonegilla Migrant Reception Centre → Somers Holding Centre

Leonid Bunjevic, known as Leon, was a trained draughtsman and musician. After the family's arrival at Bonegilla he picked grapes near Mildura and later worked at the International Harvester factory in Geelong, while his wife Tina and their children moved to Somers. Leon bought a bicycle and made the long journey to see them every second weekend; when the centre wound down the family moved into a weatherboard house at Crib Point.

After arrival at Bonegilla

Leon picks grapes near Mildura and later works at Geelong while Tina and the children move to Somers

Sources

Rod Nuske, Leon’s Story, Somers Paper Nautilus 60, November–December 2015

Late 1957

Leon loses his camp position during the transfer to educational use and the family moves to a house at Crib Point

Sources

Rod Nuske, Leon’s Story, Somers Paper Nautilus 60, November–December 2015

Documents

Sources

Rod Nuske, Leon’s Story, Somers Paper Nautilus 60, November–December 2015