A Fortunate Life
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At eight years old, an impoverished Bert Facey was forced to start the backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk life of a farm labourer. Unschooled, his father dead, abandoned by his mother, by the age of twenty he had survived the rigours of pioneering the harsh Australian bush and the slaughter of the bloody WWI campaign at Gallipoli.
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Jeffrey RhoeJock McKayMaurie OgdenCopDominic SweeneyBertJohn LeyEric Facey
Paul SonkkilaArchie McCall
Val LehmanBert's Mother
Bill KerrNarrator (voice)
Bill HunterCharlie Bibby
Andrew Kovacevich
Ray MeagherBad BobMovie DNA
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At eight years old, an impoverished Bert Facey was forced to start the backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk life of a farm labourer. Unschooled, his father dead, abandoned by his mother, by the age of twenty he had survived the rigours of pioneering the harsh Australian bush and the slaughter of the bloody WWI campaign at Gallipoli.