John Berghofer's service to Blue Mountains cut short by World War I

By Robyne Ridge
Updated December 4 2017 - 1:21pm, first published October 9 2017 - 4:24pm

Born in 1840 in Germany, John Berghofer emigrated to Australia to escape religious and political persecution. He finally settled in Hartley in the 1870s.

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