Real Flash Cove, A: The Story of the Bushranger John Gilbert

First Edition.

Johnny Gilbert was an Australian bushranger shot dead by the police at the age of 23 near Binalong, New South Wales on 13 May 1865. John Gilbert was the only Australian bushranger not to have served time in prison.

Gilbert was a member of Ben Hall’s gang. Hall and Gilbert were both shot by police within a week of each other. Hall was shot dead on 5 May 1865 near Forbes, New South Wales . After Hall was killed his gang split up and Gilbert and John Dunn travelled to Binalong where Dunn had relatives.

At eighteen he fell under the influence of the bushranger who used the alias Frank Gardiner.

In 1862