Entry Text: | PITT, David Buxton. War Letters from Frank Buxton, RANVR. xxi, 95p., illus. Brighton, Vic.: Tom Buxton, 2002. ISBN: 0958013403.
A selection of seventy-six letters and cables home. He travelled to the UK in 1940 and after training served on Kashmir, Trinidad and Howe, surviving the sinking of the first two. In 1944 he returned to Australia serving on Orara then in a shore job. The letters are fresh and innocent and give a lively depiction of his world. |
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