Her father was a hero. She knew this because they had written his name on a big wooden board together with the names of all the other heroes. She was only three years old at the time but she remembered it clearly all her life. Sixty years later she wrote to a regional newspaper far from where she lived. ‘I am endeavouring to learn something of my early life in Western Australia and wonder if any of your readers can help’ she began.
This is the story she found.
Three young men started a farm at Margaret River when the south-west of Western Australia was being opened up to settlers in the early years of the last century. Life was hard in a pioneering community but Lance, Chris and Evelyn were optimistic and energetic and they loved it. Their future was full of promise. Then came the war. The Great War.
This is their story.