A prominent member of the medical community of the Outback, Dr Fred McConnel has worked as a GP, medical administrator, and educator. With his wife Robin, he has raised four children in the Kimberley region.
Fred’s interests have always included working with horses, and he brings his own horse and trap to the Ride in his role as mail cart driver, playing the part of the deliverer of essential mail in the 1915 world.
In 1915, Albert Borella journeyed through 1000 kilometres of the Northern Territory’s Outback from Tennant Creek to Darwin to join up to fight in World War I. He fought at Gallipoli, and the Western Front, was twice wounded, commissioned on the battlefield, and was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest
honour for valor in combat.
The Borella Ride is being recognised as an Anzac Centenary 2015 programmed event supported by the Commonwealth of Australia and the Northern Territory Government.
