Soldier boy : the true story of Jim Martin the youngest Anzac

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Label

Soldier boy : the true story of Jim Martin the youngest Anzac

Title remainder

the true story of Jim Martin the youngest Anzac

Statement of responsibility

Anthony Hill

Creator

• trueHill, Anthony, 1942-

Subject

• Australia, Army -- Biography
• trueFamilies of military personnel
• trueGallipoli Campaign, Turkey, 1915
• trueGallipoli, Turkey
• Martin, Jim, d. 1915
• trueMilitary campaigns
• Nonfiction
• trueSoldiers -- Australia
• trueSoldiers -- Australia -- Biography
• trueTeenage boys -- Australia
• trueTeenage soldiers
• trueWar casualties
• trueWorld War I -- Teenagers' participation
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Australia -- Biography
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Turkey | Gallipoli Peninsula

Genre

• trueBiography

Language

eng

Summary

On 28 June 1915, young James Martin sailed from Melbourne aboard the troopship Berrima - bound, ultimately, for Gallipoli. He was just fourteen years old. "Soldier Boy" is Jim's extraordinary true story, the story of a young and enthusiastic school boy who became Australia's youngest known Anzac. Four months after leaving his home country he would be numbered among the dead, just one of so many soldier boys who travelled halfway around the world for the chance of adventure. This is, however, just as much the story of Jim's mother, Amelia Martin. It is the heartbreaking tale of the mother who had to let him go, of his family who lost a son, a brother, an uncle, a friend. It is about Amelia's boy who, like so many others, just wanted to be in on the action

Member of

• Victorian Premier's Reading Challenge, 7-8

Tone

• trueMoving
• trueMelancholy

Award

NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature, 2002.

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

Uk

Dewey number

940.426

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• portraits
• plates

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 2
• 3

Nature of contents

bibliography