Billy - A Boy from Queenstown by Sandra Stubbings | PB Reference one-legged rooster with a taste

one-legged rooster with a taste for rotting hamburgers

each poem aims to capture a single moment in time through raw and sometimes graphic thoughts and feelings

enduring and uplifting love

and occasionally a complete farce

These early photographers recorded not just the dramatic physical features they found but also the typically rough shelters of the miners

Billy - A Boy from Queenstown by Sandra Stubbings | PB Reference one-legged rooster with a tasteThe 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