 View from the front of the school through Gowrie towards the Brindabellas |
The Canberra suburb of Gowrie is located in the Tuggeranong Valley in the southern area of the nation's capital city. Gowrie is named after the Earl of Gowrie, Brigadier-General Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven (1872-1955), Governor-General of Australia from 1936-1944.
The streets in Gowrie are all named after members of the Australian Armed Forces who won distinctions, including the Victoria Cross. The Primary School, opened in 1983, is located on Jeffries Street. This is named after Captain Clarence S. Jeffries, VC (1894-1917) who was in the AIF. He won his Victoria Cross in Belgium in 1917. European history of Tuggeranong and surrounding areas dates from the 1830s. But the area has been occupied for 21,000 years prior to this. |
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