A Fortunate Life — Season 1, Episode 2: Bush Schooling (1905-1908)
Drama • 90 min • 1 season, 4 episodes • ★ 5.0/10
Episode synopsis
Bert goes to work for the Phillips, a childless couple who treat him as one of the family.
About A Fortunate Life
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.