Ben Bowyang
''Ben Bowyang'' was an Australian newspaper comic strip created by the cartoonist Alex Gurney. It debuted in 1936. Following the misadventures of two larrikin soldiers, the strip was based on the "Gunn's Gully" newspaper humor columns written during the 1920s and 1930s by C. J. Dennis of the ''Melbourne Herald''. Dennis wrote about a philosophical farmer, Ben Bowyang, from Gunn's Gully. The first six installments appeared on a full page in the ''Picture-News'' in November and the comic strip was moved to the ''Sun News-Pictorial'' on 1 February 1940. The strip was also drawn by Mick Armstrong, Keith Martin, Sir Lionel Lindsay, Alex McRae, Peter Russell-Clarke Peter Russell-Clarke (born 19 September 1935) is an Australian chef, cookbook writer, illustrator and media personality Biography Clarke is best known for his television cooking shows. He hosted a five-minute television show called ''Come an ... and Sam Wells. During its later years it appeared in '' The Melbourne H ...
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Gurney Alex 1938
A stretcher, gurney, litter, or pram is an apparatus used for moving patients who require medical care. A basic type (cot or litter) must be carried by two or more people. A wheeled stretcher (known as a gurney, trolley, bed or cart) is often equipped with variable height frames, wheels, tracks, or skids. Stretchers are primarily used in acute out-of-hospital care situations by emergency medical services (EMS), military, and search and rescue personnel. In medical forensics the right arm of a corpse is left hanging off the stretcher to let paramedics know it is not a wounded patient. They are also used to hold prisoners during lethal injections in the United States. History An early stretcher, likely made of wicker over a frame, appears in a manuscript from . Si