Johnny Gilbert Bushranger Merch

Johnny Gilbert was the over the top Canadian bushranger that worked alongside Frank Gardiner and Ben Hall. His propensity for violence and love of frivolity and lawlessness led him to and early grave.

Johnny Gilbert was the over the top Canadian bushranger that worked alongside Frank Gardiner and Ben Hall. His propensity for violence and love of frivolity and lawlessness led him to and early grave.

Johnny Gilbert was the over the top Canadian bushranger that worked alongside Frank Gardiner and Ben Hall. His propensity for violence and love of frivolity and lawlessness led him to and early grave.

Martin Cash was Tasmania's premier outlaw in the 1840s. With his mates Lawrence Kavanagh and George Jones he led a life of crime throughout the colony before his arrest in Hobart and subsequent imprisonment on Norfolk Island.

The gentleman bushranger that terrorised the wealthy landowners of Van Diemen's Land in the early 1820s, escaped from Hell's Gates, and stole the hearts of women across Tasmania.

Master of the bluff, Harry Power was a bushranger with a proud record of never shedding blood. He frequently baffled authorities with his ability to traverse vast distances between robberies and is known as Ned Kelly's tutor in bushranging.

Johnny Gilbert, Ben Hall and John Dunn as they would have appeared during their short career as the Hall Gang.

One of the Lachlan's most dangerous bushrangers, John O'Meally was a member of the gangs of Frank Gardiner, Johnny Gilbert and Ben Hall. O'Meally was short tempered and quick to violence, with at least one death to his name. He met his end during a gunfight at Goimbla.

After the death of Sergeant Parry at Black Springs, the Hall Gang were wanted for murder. This reward notice was published in 1864 and signalled the beginning of the end for the bushrangers.

One of Australia's most prolific outlaws, Ben Hall, committed hundreds of offenses from robberies to holding up entire towns in the span of three years. He was the most wanted man in the British Empire until he was gunned down by police in 1865.

For months Frank Gardiner, The Darkie, had been plotting a big heist. He knew that the key to a big haul was to attack one of the gold escorts from the diggings but they would be heavily guarded so he would need to be able to overwhelm the security. So, as 1862 trundled along Gardiner built up a gang for his heist that could hardly be rivaled by any police escort. Among the men were Gardiner’s wingman Johnny Gilbert, Ben Hall, John O’Meally, Henry Manns, Alexander Fordyce, Daniel Charters, and John Bow . In that time Gardiner had been bouncing ideas around with Gilbert and O’Meally, finally devising a plan as winter set in.