The Hero of Komiatum : The Story of a Bush Lad from North Queensland : A Typical Son of Australia single work   poetry   "Just a freckled, curly-headed little fellow, not so very long, so very long ago,"
Issue Details: First known date: 1946... 1946 The Hero of Komiatum : The Story of a Bush Lad from North Queensland : A Typical Son of Australia
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Notes

  • Author's note: A salute to Corporal F.S. Deal of Packer's Camp, Gordonvale N.Q. Known in his Battalion (42nd.) as "The Mighty Atom." Corporal Deal recently won a Military Medal at Komiatum, on the Salamua-Lae Trail for conspicuous bravery.

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