Ward gained the nickname "Thunderbolt" during the Rutherford toll-bar robbery on 21 December when the toll-bar keeper told Police that the door burst open like the sound of a thunderbolt.

Soon afterwards, Ward gained notoriety for bushranging and adopted the moniker ‘Captain Thunderbolt’. Legend has it that in December 1863, Ward hammered on the door of a …

Hundreds flocked to see the body of Captain Thunderbolt (1835-1870) after his death and for a shilling, you could buy a postcard of his bullet-ridden body. It was an ignominious end to the …

Bushranger Frederick Ward (1835-1870), also known as Captain Thunderbolt, robbed in the northern districts of New South Wales in the 1860s

He adopted the name 'Captain Thunderbolt' in the early 1860s. He carried out a series of armed robberies near Bourke with three associates, including a 16-year-old boy John Thomson, who …

Frederick Wordsworth Ward, better known by the self-styled pseudonym of Captain Thunderbolt, was an Australian bushranger renowned for escaping from Cockatoo Is...

On 21st December 1863 Fred Ward held up the tollbar house at Campbell’s Hill between Rutherford and Maitland. It was after this event that he called himself “Captain Thunderbolt”. …

On 22 December 1863, he robbed a toll-bar operator at Rutherford, west of Maitland, and afterwards informed his victim that his name was "Captain Thunderbolt". This is the first time …

What is Captain Thunderbolt? Captain Thunderbolt was an Australian bushranger renowned for escaping from Cockatoo Island, and also for his reputation as ...

Sep 27, 2024 · Captain Thunderbolt, directed by Cecil Holmes in 1951, is a classic Australian tale of the rebel as hero. It’s the story of Australia's longest-roaming bushranger, who escaped …