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Editor's note: This extract from one of Martin Boyd's autobiographies emphasises the reluctance with which a member of Australia's foremost artistic dynasty enlisted in the First World War. He came to do so in England. Here, we follow him on the leisurely, but for many one-way, sea voyage to war. Besides revealing Boyd's uncertainties as to where 'Home' truly was - an issue for many Australians of his time - the seeds of his later pacifism are discernible. Boyd was spared to write fiction that exemplifed his horror of war, including the novel When Blackbirds Sing (1962)
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From Part 2, Black Sky at Noon: Chapter 1 (68-77) and Chapter 2 (79-80)
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