April 25, 2025 @ 7:16 AM
Act 1, Scene 2: School
This is the school in Manningtree Road, Glenferrie, Melbourne, attended by soldier boy Jim Martin for the last years of his education. Today, it is externally still much as he knew it.
Here, Jim played the school drum to march the pupils into class, and did his compulsory junior military cadet training before leaving to start work and senior cadets at the end of 1914. Four months later he had enlisted for Gallipoli.
"Boy soldiers everywhere," as his mother says in the play. No wonder so many of them tried to enlist for the Great War – and succeeded, often with such tragic results.
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