Last truck out

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The work Last truck out represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

Last truck out

Statement of responsibility

Betty Lockyer

Creator

• trueLockyer, Betty, (Elizabeth), 1942-

Subject

• trueChristian church work with children
• Aboriginal Australians -- Mixed descent -- Western Australia
• trueBeagle Bay Mission Western Australia) -- Social life and customs
• Church work with children -- Western Australia
• trueOrphanages
• trueGirl orphans
• trueParental deprivation
• Children -- Institutional care -- Western Australia | Broome -- Biography
• trueFamily and Relationships -- Growing Up
• trueAboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Social conditions
• trueAustralian literature
• trueMultiracial children
• Beagle Bay Mission (W.A.) -- Social life and customs
• trueLife stories -- Relationships | Growing up
• trueChildren -- Institutional care
• trueAutobiographies and memoirs
• trueBroome, Western Australia -- Social life and customs
• Parental deprivation -- Western Australia | Broome
• trueLockyer, Betty, (Elizabeth), 1942- -- Childhood and youth

Genre

• trueFamily and Relationships
• trueAutobiographies and memoirs
• trueBiography
• trueAustralian literature
• trueLife stories

Language

eng

Summary

WWII 1942?Broome, pearling town on the far north coast of Western Australia. The enemy was snaking its way towards the Australian coastline. Broome was being evacuated. The resident Japanese and their families had already been interned. Aboriginal families were being trucked to Beagle Bay Mission, 120 km north, under the care of the German brothers and Irish nuns. Betty Lockyer?s mother was on the last truck to leave Broome on 17 February, heavy with child. Worst fears were realised when the Japanese attacked Darwin. On 3 March they blew twenty-four Dutch flying boats out of the water in Broome. Men, women and children died. Betty was born two weeks later, safe in the relative peacefulness of the mission

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

ANL

Dewey number

B

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult