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418 pages ; 21 cm |
| Summary |
William Charles Bevan was a wild child, unruly and a handful, aggressive and fiercely competitive. He was also extremely strong - so strong that his friends nicknamed him Jumbo (as in the elephant), soon shortened to Jum. As an adult, Jum was an athlete, larrikin, horseman, musician, lover, husband, father and a fighter, on and off the blood-soaked battlefields of the First World War. His estranged son George remembered him only as a troubled, violent man. When George discovers Jums wartime diaries and medals, he decides to find out what he can about the father he never really knew. In this dramatised biography, George uses Jums war diary to recreate his fathers wartime experiences as an artilleryman and mounted runner. He interweaves the diary excerpts with his own memories to create a story of one mans war and his legacy of struggle once the war was over |
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Bevan, Jum (William Charles)
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, Australian.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans -- Australia -- Biography.
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Soldiers -- Australia -- Biography.
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Fathers and sons -- Australia -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9781921208379 paperback |
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