Historical information

Murray Comrie Collection.

Murray Comrie, born in Tarnagulla in 1912 also became a policeman and later a Chief Superintendent, retiring in 1972 and passing away in 1983 after a long illness. Murray Comrie's son Murray Jnr., to avoid confusion became known by his middle name, Neil. Neil Comrie also joined Victoria Police and rose through the ranks to become Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police from 1993 to 2001.

Physical description

Blue-grey archive box containing research notes of Murray Comrie. Within this set are multiple archival folders with the following subject matter:


Banks
Lodge
Gold & mining
War/Military
Local people
Buildings
Businesses
Local government
Post Offices
Policing
Recreation Reserve
Railway
Clubs & Societies
Band/Music
Hotels
Churches
Schools
Fire Brigade
Laanecoorie
Early white history
General (including many captions that accompanied photographs - which were separated from the photos for preservation storage reasons).


The contents of these files were research notes compiled by Murray Comrie during his research for a book about Tarnagulla.