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Ned Kelly: The Knight In Shining Armour

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Ned Kelly was born in 1855 at Beveridge, Victoria, he was the eldest son of John Kelly and his wife Ellen nee Quinn. Ned Kelly was a horse thief, cop killer and a bank robber. He is significant because of, his last words, the armour he made and also him robbing a pig famer. One of the names people gave Ned Kelly was “The Knight in Shining Armour”. This all happened in 1879, when the Kelly gang came up with the idea of making armour from mouldboards. They used hammers to beat the material until it could be worn. Kelly’s gang was killed during a shootout however, Ned Kelly lived. His armour now is a very valuable artefact. In 1869 Ned Kelly was arrested and served seven weeks in jail for assaulting a Chinese pig farmer. It was also alleged that

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