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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.

Notable characters played by Johnny Depp.

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.

Matthew Brady, Martin Cash, Frank Gardiner, Johnny Gilbert, Ben hall, Dan Morgan, Tommy Clarke, Captain Thunderbolt, Harry Power, Captain Moonlite, Ned Kelly and Paddy Kenniff are some of the most notorious bushrangers in history and here they are in one image.

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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.

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