Dervish Bejah

Dervish Bejah Jakhrani Baloch (c. 1862 – 1957), also known as Dervish, was an Australian camel driver who had a significant role in the exploration and development of inland Australia.

• 1896:In 1896 Bejah was engaged by Lawrence Wells to manage the camels used for transport on the ill-fated Calvert Scientific Exploring Expedition to the Great Sandy Desert of north-central Western Australia.
• 1902:In 1902 he settled in Marree, South Australia, where he bought land and from where he operated his camel transport business.
• 1909:On 15 December 1909 he married Amelia Jane Shaw, a widow with whom he had a son, Abdul Jubbar (Jack).

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PICTURESQUE CAMEL DRIVER VISITS CITY

One of SA's few surviving Indian camel drivers, Bejah Dervish, who is not sure just how old he is, has come to Adelaide to spend a month's holiday with his granddaughter (Mrs. P. Zanka) at her home in Puller street, Walkerville. Turbaned, white bearded Bejah has an engraved brass compass to prove that he was a member of the illfated Calvert expedition in WA in 1896. He was one of the few survivors. 'I think I land at Fremantle six years before then and I was about 30 old when I come to Australia. That would make me at least 94 now, but I think I'm older than that. "I don't feel that old though," he added with a laugh. Bejah found it hard to reckon up his descendants. He lost track of great grandchildren when they reached 27. Bejah. who was a great camel man in earlier days, is now on the old-age pension and lives with members of his family at Marree. His hobby is breeding date palms.

PICTURESQUE CAMEL DRIVER VISITS CITY (1954, December 2). Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954), p. 55. Retrieved August 15, 2018, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article93985803