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=Banjo Paterson= Banjo Paterson is known for his work as a journalist, war correspondent, solictor and soldier. Andrew Barton(Banjo) Patterson born on the 17th February 1864 at Narrambla near Orange, New South Wales and was the eldest of seven children of Andrew Bogle Paterson who was a grazier and has a wife named Rose Isabella. Banjo enjoyed a bush boyhood. When he was 7 the family moved to Illalong in the Yass district. At picnic race meetings and polo matches, he aw in action accomplished horsemen from the Murrumbidgee and Snowy Mountains country which generated his lifelong enthusiasm for horses and horsemanship and eventually the writing of his famous equestrian ballads He attended school at Binalong. In 1874 he was send Sydney Grammar Scholl where in 1875 he shared the junior Knox prize with (Sir) George Rich, and matriculate aged After failing University of Sydney scholarship examination, Paterson served the customary articles of clerkship with Hebert Salwey and was admitted as a solicitor on 28 August 1886 For ten years from about 1889 During he practices inn partnership with John William Street As a young man he joined Sydney social and sporting scene. He was also a keen tennis player and an accomplished oarsman but he like horsemanship the best He rode to hounds with Sydney Hunt club became one of the colony best polo players and as a amateur rider competed at Randwick and Rosehill Suring his schooldays in Sydney Paterson liked in Gladesville with his widowed grandma Emily May Barton who fostered his love of poetry. Paterson began writing verses as a law student his first poem 'El Mahdi to the Australian literature. He helped Henry Lawson to daw up contracts with publishers.


 * By 1895 Banjo Patterson written many famous ballads such as' Clancy of the overflow', 'The Geebung Polo Club', 'The Man from Ironbark', 'How the Favourite beat us' and 'Saltbush Bill'. They managed to be so popular collections were published such as 'The man from snowy river' and 'other verses.
 * During his holiday in Queensland late 1895, while staying with his friends at Dagworth station, Patterson wrote 'Waltzing Matilda' which would become Australia's most well known fold song.
 * One of his most important opportunities came when the south African War broke out and he was commissioned by the Sydney morning herald and the Melbourne age as a journalist and war correspondent.
 * In July 1901 Patterson Sailed to china as a roving correspondent for the Sydney morning herald, where he met G.E Morrison whose exploits he always enjoyed.
 * Back in Sydney in 1902 he published another collection, 'rio grande's last race' and 'other verses'
 * When World War 1 began, Paterson immediately sailed to England, hoping to cover the fighting in Flanders, but was unsuccessful.


 * In October 18 he was commissioned in the 2nd Remount Unit, Australian Imperial force.


 * He was promoted as Captain and served in the middle east. He got wounded in April 1916, and re-joined his unit in July. He was promoted to major, and commanded the Australian Remount Squadron from October until he returned to Australia in mid 1919.
 * After the war he resumed journalism and contributed to Sydney Mail and Smith's Weekly and became the editor of a racing journal.
 * He retired from active journalism in 1930 to devote his leisure to creative writing.
 * He wrote published another novel, the shearers Cold and in 1939 he wrote reminiscences for the Sydney morning herald. That year he was appointed C.B.E.


 * He died, after a short illness, on February 1941.