Albert Ernest Retallack

Albert Retallack, born in Boulder City, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, came from mining stock. His father's people had come from Cornwall to the Burra; his mother's from Wales via Pennsylvania to Castlemaine. Bert's parents had made their separate ways to Kalgoorlie in the 1890s, and his father and uncles had sojourns in Johannesburg at the turn of the century. However, in Bert's childhood the family moved, via Moonta, on to a two acre block at Richmond where his father became a carrier. When his father died in 1918 Bert, the oldest of three children, had to leave the Adelaide High School to help support the family. He embarked upon a career in the Post Office, Telephone and Telegraph Department, rising from a Junior Technician in training to a professional Engineer by 1930 and retiring as Superintending Engineer of Planning in 1968. Mr Retallack married in 1928 and had three children