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I read Albert Facey’s autobiographical A Fortunate Life as a kid. I don’t remember much about it apart from a hard childhood in remote Western Australia and then enlisting for The Great War. I saw (aus.social)
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I read Albert Facey’s autobiographical A Fortunate Life as a kid. I don’t remember much about it apart from a hard childhood in remote Western Australia and then enlisting for The Great War. I saw that the 1986 made for television mini-series is on Tubi at the moment, so I’m giving it a watch.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

@[email protected] my mum read it and immediately started writing her own autobiography. She said her life was at least as hard as his. Sadly, she never wrote more than a handful of pages, despite my encouragement.