Leading Wimmera historian, Mr Otway Vernon Carter, 71, died at Horsham on Saturday.
A former grazier at Laharum, south of Horsham, Mr. Carter was a foundation member of Horsham Historical Society.
He recently published a booklet on the on the late Walter Zumstein, a pioneer who established Wartook in the Grampians as a tourist centre.
Mr. Carter who served with the 29th Battalion of the 1st AIF was a prisoner of war of the Germans.
'Carter, Otway Vernon (1895–1967)', Obituaries Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/carter-otway-vernon-15405/text26612, accessed 29 March 2023.
10 April,
1895
Wartook, Victoria, Australia
25 November,
1967
(aged 72)
Horsham, Victoria, Australia