George Elliott is one of the the most enduring and well known personalities ever at Fairbridge having spent virtually his whole life there. George arrived as a migrant child amongst Party Number 37 on 1st October 1935 and remained at Fairbridge (with a few small gaps) until his passing in 1997 

Little is known of George’s early days apart from the fact that he was a Lawley boy. Conversely almost everyone who was at Fairbridge from the mid-1950s’ to closure would remember George the man, a laconic rather laid-back figure who enjoyed a beer, a cigarette, and took good care of his farmyard charges – the pigs and poultry. He was multi-skilled farmer who even turned his hand to dishing out hair-cuts for all the boys. A favourite passion of George’s was fishing and never let an opportunity to visit Shark Bay, a place close to his heart, pass him by. 

Lois Elliott still lives in Elliott’s Nest, actively attends all the OFA Farm functions and is there as a welcoming beacon for Old Fairbridgians visiting the Farm.