| Main Title: |
Bandsman Vosti's diaries : war and peace in Essendon, 1917-1920 / Lenore Frost |
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| Author: |
Frost, Lenore
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| Imprint: |
Essendon, Vic : Lenore Frost, 2012 |
| Collation: |
196 p. : ill., portraits, bib., index, pbk ; 25 cm |
| Summary: |
John Vosti is the father of a large family living in the western suburbs of Melbourne during the Great War. In 1917 he is working at the Cordite Factory, Maribyrnong, and playing with the Essendon City Council Band. His eldest son, Les, is in France with the AIF as a bandsman/stretcher-bearer. John Vosti€s diaries, covering 1917 € 1920, give a detailed account of an ordinary working family caught up in the struggle of a nation at war. These diaries offer a special insight into life in a difficult period in Australia€s history. |
| Subject: |
Vosti, John
Vosti family
Keating family
Biography
Bands
Brass bands
Essendon (Vic.) (Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country)
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| ISBN: |
9780958055826 |
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