Soldiers of the King: The Murray Family who Lived at 72 East Avenue Black Forest South Australia
- ISBN-10
- 0648303004
- ISBN-13
- 9780648303008
- Category
- South Australia
- Pages
- 366
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018
- Author
- Michael J. Pierce
Description
"John Murray serves with an elite Royal Artillery company at the Battle of Waterloo. Joseph Murray sails to the Arctic on the doomed Sir John Franklin expedition. Mary Salmon raises eleven children at a drought afflicted grazing property on the Willochra Plain. Her husband had to go away but he left mary with one horse, eight gallons of water and a cheque. Rita Salmon lives in the bush north of Quorn. She is five yars old and walks four and a half miles to school each day. With her eleven year old brother and two sisters, Rita's little letgs take her across extensive saltbush paddocks. She climbs through nine fences along the way. Sometimes there are dust storms and the children get lost. Bert Murray fights the Turks at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli. Bob Murray batles Rommel's Afrika Korps at the Siege of Tobruk. Peter Murray is on convoy escort duty off the coast of Africa. A u-boat is sighted. An alarm sounds. There's a torpedo in the water. Lyndon Murray spends a year in the Antarctic. He toils to prevent winter blizzards from burying an ice station. These are some of the stories in ths book. There are many more"--Cover description.
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Other editions
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- 1995
- 288 pages
- Paperback
- Boston Mills Press
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