A Fortunate Life

Released: 1986-04-27

Runtime: 90 minutes

Episode Overview

Bert Facey's tormented early years through his father's death and harsh economic depression

Series Overview

At eight years old, an impoverished Bert Facey was forced to start the backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk life of a farm labourer. Unschooled, his father dead, abandoned by his mother, by the age of twenty he had survived the rigours of pioneering the harsh Australian bush and the slaughter of the bloody WWI campaign at Gallipoli.