My family’s first Murray: Ruffy the gun dog of Red Cliffs

October 2011 | History and Heritage

By Elwyn Gaywood, Gymea NSW

From the Murray Mail archive: first published in the club's newsletter, issue 5 (October 2011), and dated here to when it first appeared. Read the original issue (members).

Elwyn Gaywood’s family story of her grandfather’s gun dog Ruffy on a soldier settler block at Red Cliffs, who once dragged home a coat left miles away, and the second Ruffy who followed.

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