| Collection type | Library |
|---|---|
| Author | Bevan, George E.; |
| Call Number | 940.48194 B571b |
| Document type | Monograph |
| Year | 2007. |
| Pagination | 418 p. : ill., facsims. ; 21 cm. |
| Publisher | Pier 9, |
| Note | 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 Jum's wartime diaries and me dals, he decides to find out what he can about the father he never really knew. In this dramatised biography, George uses Jum's war diary to recreate his father's wartime experiences as an artilleryman and mounted runner. He interweaves the diary excerpts with his own memories and longings to create a story of one man's war and his legacy of struggle once the war was over. |
| Place made | Millers Point, N.S.W. |
Jum's war : finding my father William 'Jum' Bevan 5th FAB AIF / George Bevan.
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| AWM086113 | 940.48194 B571b | Stacks | On Shelf | |||
| AWM082997 | 940.48194 B571b | Stacks | On Shelf |