Our Darling Clarence Fell

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Our Darling Clarence Fell is written by Brooke A Smith and published by Brooke A Smith. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0646715283 (ISBN 10) and 9780646715285 (ISBN 13).

In March 1917 Reginald Clarence Edwards planted an Australian Eucalypt (Gum) tree on the property at Bostobrick, New South Wales, where he lived with family, shortly before leaving Australia to fight in the First World War. He planted the tree on the chance that he may not return from the War. That tree continues to grow and thrive to the present day, over 100 years after it was planted. Far from being a memorial to Reginald Clarence Edwards, the tree has become symbolic of the strength and resilience of the Edwards family generally, that, like the tree, continues to grow and thrive into the present day. The history of the Edwards family is a history of hardship and tragedy, but it is also a story of courage and the ability to adapt to whatever life throws at you. This is a family that not only has been defined by a new and expanding colony, but has also defined the colony: a convict beginning, free settlers, a tragic wartime toll, Parliamentary references, and an ancestor whose way of life is, to this day, still taught to school children across the nation, as being very much a part of the fabric of the ‘wild colonial life’ in New South Wales in the 1800s. This is the story of the Edwards family of Bostobrick.