Billy - A Boy from Queenstown by Sandra Stubbings | PB Travel Parting Shot Cape Bruny lighthouse

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Feathered Alphabet (2023) (Tasmanian Literary Awards short list) and Too Many Tigers (2024) (CBCA Notable and Tasmanian Literary Awards long list)

More importantly it is an arm around the shoulder of disobedient teachers who transform people’s lives

The first sting in the tale of his life trajectory

~ Libby Goodsir (Tasmanian writer short listed for the Premier’s Literary Prize and the People’s Choice 2015)

Billy - A Boy from Queenstown by Sandra Stubbings | PB Travel Parting Shot Cape Bruny lighthouseThe story of Billy Gadd, a Tasmanian World War I boy soldier. Its not known how many under aged Tasmanian lads signed on for the Great War, but Sandra Stubbings great uncle Billy Gadd from Queenstown was one of them. He signed on in 1915 at just 16 years of age. Just three years earlier Billys father, Albert had been recognised as a national hero for his actions in the North Mount Lyell mining disaster. Sadly, Albert died in 1913, his death hastened