G. H. Fearnside
Autore di All Stations West - The Story of the Sydney-Perth Standard Gauge Railway
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Wahid Peter Andu, a 20-year-old student from North Borneo, lines up in a Sydney street with the front rank of the 9th Division wreath-laying party in readiness for the march of the Cenotaph. The other members of the rank are Colonel O W Ogle, left, Mr L J Villiers with standard, and GH Fearnside, circa 1960.
Opere di G. H. Fearnside
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- Male
- Nazionalità
- Australian
- Attività lavorative
- Soldier
Journalist
Author - Organizzazioni
- 2nd Australian Imperial Force
Utenti
Recensioni
Statistiche
- Opere
- 4
- Utenti
- 22
- Popolarità
- #553,378
- Voto
- 3.0
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 5
- Lingue
- 1
Published in 1975, this book is a memoir of the author's service in the Second World War. As a platoon sergeant he served with the 2/13 Battalion, 9 Division, Australian Imperial Force, at Tobruk and El Alamein in 1941-1942, and later as a commissioned officer with the 2/3 Battalion, 6 Division, AIF in the Aitape-Wewak Campaign in New Guinea, 1944-1945. In some ways the book is also a potted unit history of the battalions in which he served. But it is also something more. There is a subtle undercurrent of a man trying to explain and understand what happened to him and his comrades during those years, and how the consequences carried forward into the men they became. The author's older brother served in the same battalion as he, dying of wounds at Tobruk, and the book is full of brief cameos what became of his fellow soldiers, whether or not they survived the war.
After coming home in 1945, GH Fearnside went on to have a career as a journalist and author, dying in 1978, aged only 60 years, 3 years after this book was published.
Copy purchased secondhand by the Reviewer from Grants Bookshop Sandringham.… (altro)