Jac Jorgenson

Tales from Rat City

Join Tom, David and their guest, historic reenactor Chase Day, as they uncover the story of Jac Jorgenson, and discuss the rich tradition of women in the military. See below for our gallery of remarkable female fighters, courtesy of Chase’s Facebook group Bob the Reenactor.

John ‘Jac’ Jorgenson (or Jorgensen) moved to country Victoria in the 1800s, worked as a farmhand and joined the local mounted rifles. But not everything in their life was as it seemed and upon their death their carefully constructed life story came unraveled.

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Cast

• Collin van Uden
  Journalist
• Emil Freund
  Newspaper Editor, Farmer Bailey, Major Hoad, Dr Haarse
• Wes Scott:
  Farmhand, Mr McColl
• Ben Marshall:
  Jac’s Friend, Colonel Price, Dr McGillivray, Constable Bennett
• Rebecca O’Callaghan:
  Theresa Newman (Jac’s sister)

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  Frances Clayton aka Jack Williams fought alongside her husband in the US Civil War

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  Pirates Ann Bonny and Mary Read depicted in 1724

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  Maud Butler who twice attempted to enlist during WWI

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  Pirate Mary Read wins a duel

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  Julie d’Aubigny – French Renaissance Bisexual Duelest and Opera Singer

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  The great female samurai, Tomoe Gozen from The Tale of the Heike

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  Albert Cashier adopted the identity of a man before enlisting in the US Civil War, and maintained it for the remainder of her life.

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  Highly accomplished 19th century US Duelest Ella Hattan, “Jaguarina”.

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  Another image of Ella Hattan, the Jaguarina