Henrich Alfred Klingberg

Heinrich Alfred Klingberg, one of eleven children, was born to German parents on a wheat farm at Arden Vale, north of Quorn. The Arden Vale School closed in 1910 and after a further nine months at a German school in Emu Downs for his Confirmation studies, Alfred began work. He spent four and a half years on his brother-in-law's farm at Wyacca before returning home when two older brothers went to war. However, by 1921 it was evident that the farm could not support the three remaining sons and his father settled him on a thirty acre block in Quorn. Alfred became a labourer in the Loco Sheds at the Railway Yards and he married a local girl. Their two children were born in 1923 and '25. When the Commonwealth Railways took over the Great Northern Line in 1926, Mr Klingberg was placed at the Mile End Loco Yard (he'd requested Peterborough) where he specialised as an engine greaser.