Meta Truscott

[5][6][7] For over 80 years, she wrote a daily diary and collected scrapbooks, with pasted-in newspaper clippings and other ephemera (1934–2014).

[9] Meta Truscott attended St Joseph's Convent School, Nundah where she later completed a business course.

On 1 January 1934, aged sixteen and a half, Truscott née Hurley began her first diary; a Christmas gift from her maternal uncle, Christopher Dunne, Station Master at Toowoomba railway station.

During September that year, her saddest entry recorded the sudden death of her father aged 63[10] in the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Brisbane.

On Monday afternoon, 20 April 1936, while visiting The Gap, Sydney with her uncle, Christopher Dunne, they by chance shared a bench with a well-dressed, middle-aged man.