Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (Aus.) bread.

1905		Duke Tritton’s Letter n.p.: And I can come home now after a hard day’s yakka, [...] wade through half a dozen dishes of scran that we used to dream of when we were on the track, then finish up with Uncle Ned and Roll Me In The Gutter.
1940		Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 30 Mar. 5/2: The digger who went along to order some rations from the British Tommy [...] ‘Uncle Ned, Cable Tram, Stand at Ease, Commander in Chief’ [...] ‘Bread, jam, cheese, beef’.
2002		Pete’s Aussie Sl. Home Page 🌐 Uncle Ned: bread.

2. a bed.

1921		N&Q 12 Ser. IX 348: Uncle Ned. Bed.
1938		L. Ortzen Down Donkey Row 210: I puts the Uncle Ned in the middle of the room.
a.1945		L. Payne private coll. n.p.: Bed Uncle Ned.
1953		J. Franklyn Cockney 293: His trouble and strife (wife) will soon pick him up off the Rory O’More (floor) and get him into Uncle Ned (bed).
1960, 1975		Wentworth & Flexner DAS.
1969		S.T. Kendall Up the Frog 12: I’ve bin in the ’ole Uncle Ned for a couple o’ weeks wiv a touch of the salmon trout.
1971		J. Jones Rhy. Cockney Sl.
1989		(con. 1950s–60s) in G. Tremlett Little Legs 198: uncle ned bed.
2001		M. Coles Bible in Cockney 28: She fancied ’im so much that she kept asking ’im to go to Uncle Ned with her!

3. (also old ned) the head.

1924		Mail (Adelaide) 16 Feb. 1/4: This is how a class of rhyming ‘slangsters’ [...] discourse on anatomy:— Head— Uncle Ned.
1932		‘P.P.’ Rhy. Sl. 9: Stick yer ‘tit fer’ on yer ‘Uncle Ned.’.
1937		L. Lane Me and My Girl I i: bill: Me lump o’ lead! all: Lump of lead? bill: Me Uncle Ned! all: Uncle Ned? bill: Oh, me ’ead.
1968		A. Burgess Enderby Outside in Complete Enderby (2002) 365: His three brads keeping double-scotch, two at his toots and behind his uncle.
1979		R. Barker Fletcher’s Book of Rhy. Sl. 6: Uncle / Uncle Ned / Head.
1982		G. Newbold Big Huey 252: old ned (n) Head.
2001		G. Coughlan Everyday Eng. and Sl. 🌐 uncle ned: head.