Profile:

Earliest/Latest Known date

1851 - 1857

Area of Origin

Murrumbidgee

Trooper’s reason for departure

Discharged after absence with tribesmen

• 1865 - 1866: Bourketown.

One of the 'old hands' (along with Paddy) who was in the habit of making the younger troopers do much of the work: 'There are five old and four young hands in this Section and you will admit where[?] “Corporal” Coreen Jimmy and “Trooper” Paddy are, when it comes to pointing the young hands have no chance with them.' (QSA86145 1854 Report from James Dolan 17 March, Papers re work of Native Police in the Lower Dawson District, Rannes 1853–1857, Mfilm 2434) 'On 15 October 1857 Morisset, then back at his headquarters at Wide Bay, wrote to Wickham reporting on his visit to Wondai Gumbal. He regretted the state of confusion in which he had found the station. Nicoll was absent in search of rations and six of the old troopers, Sergeant Boney, Corporal Larry, and troopers Jingle, Billy, and Coreen Jemmy had joined the Aborigines ''at a large Corroboree on the Balonne, a distance of some thirty miles from the barracks''. The troopers who had remained at the barracks with Second Lieutenant Moorhead ''were not under the slightest control or discipline''. Morisset had discharged the six absent troopers and also Coreen Neddy, another of the old troopers who was anxious to join them.' (Skinner 1975:269–270). Accompanied Walker on his 1861 expedition in search of Burke and Wills. Wanted to go and serve in the police force proposed for the Darling River 1855 (R.G. Walker to Commandant of the Native Police 20 August 1855, QSA ID 86137 Native Police work Port Curtis 1853-1858) Based on their dates of discharge and who subsequently accompanied Frederick Walker in search of Burke and Wills in 1861, Corporal Larry (1), Jingle, Billy - unsure which one, Coreen Jemmy, Jimmy Cargara, Harry 10, Patrick/Paddy, Rodney and Walter were troopers in the private force employed with Frederick Walker and Thomas Ross in 1858 on Euroomba and Hornet Bank. All of these were old troopers who had been in Walker's original force.