Poltpalingada Booboorowie [SEP] place of death
Poltpalingada Booboorowie
Poltpalingada Booboorowie (born – died 4 July 1901) was a Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal of the Thooree clan prominent among the community of Fringe dwellers in Adelaide, South Australia during the 1890s. He was better known to the Adelaide residents as Tommy Walker. He was the subject of several portraits by the Adelaide artist Oscar Friström.
Early life.
Walker was born in the early 19th century on the shores of Lake Albert in the upper south-east of South Australia. While young, Walker's father was reportedly
(1911-1974), American football player
People Other.
- Poltpalingada Booboorowie (c. 1830–1901), known as Tommy Walker, Australian Aboriginal personality
- Thomas Gambino (born 1929), Italian American mobster
- Thomas Ricketts (1901–1967), at age 17, the youngest soldier to ever be awarded the Victoria Cross as a combatant
- Tommy Brown (NAAFI assistant) (c. 1926-1945), youngest recipient of the George Medal, involved in retrieving code books invaluable in breaking the German Second World