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SPEEDWAY RIDER'S FUNERAL Ashes Interred at Toowoomba BRISBANE, Saturday.

18 June 1933, Sunday Times (Perth, WA : 1902 - 1954), page 1

…Another even more improbable anomaly came to light through a story told to me by an elderly relative. She remembered attending a “cousin’s” funeral when it was unseasonally hot. It took some sleuthing but eventually I figured out that the funeral was for Jack Bishop . So what’s odd about that you might well say? Only the fact that Jack died in England , and was actually buried in the Toowoomba cemetery in rural Queensland! Jack Bishop was a pioneer dirt-bike racer and had fallen ill while racing overseas. His mates in Australia had collected the money to pay for his ashes to be brought back to Australia. Who would expect something like that in the 1930s? There’s quite a story in this to which I’ll return another day.…

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Late Jack Bishop. ASHES FOR QUEENSLAND.

22 April 1933, Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), page 2

…Another even more improbable anomaly came to light through a story told to me by an elderly relative. She remembered attending a “cousin’s” funeral when it was unseasonally hot. It took some sleuthing but eventually I figured out that the funeral was for Jack Bishop . So what’s odd about that you might well say? Only the fact that Jack died in England , and was actually buried in the Toowoomba cemetery in rural Queensland! Jack Bishop was a pioneer dirt-bike racer and had fallen ill while racing overseas. His mates in Australia had collected the money to pay for his ashes to be brought back to Australia. Who would expect something like that in the 1930s? There’s quite a story in this to which I’ll return another day.…

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DEATH OF JACK BISHOP. TOOWOOMBA, March 21.

22 March 1933, The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), page 4

…Another even more improbable anomaly came to light through a story told to me by an elderly relative. She remembered attending a “cousin’s” funeral when it was unseasonally hot. It took some sleuthing but eventually I figured out that the funeral was for Jack Bishop . So what’s odd about that you might well say? Only the fact that Jack died in England , and was actually buried in the Toowoomba cemetery in rural Queensland! Jack Bishop was a pioneer dirt-bike racer and had fallen ill while racing overseas. His mates in Australia had collected the money to pay for his ashes to be brought back to Australia. Who would expect something like that in the 1930s? There’s quite a story in this to which I’ll return another day.…