From Sulky to Seven Forty Seven: An Autobiography by Len Wallis

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Minor marks to covers. Signed by author.

The autobiography of Len Wallis, who spent his early years on his parents' farm east of Ballidu, where he and his sister attended the one-room East Ballidu School in a sulky. His grandparents, William and Alice Wallis, pioneered the district in 1909.

During the Great Depression, his parents were forced to leave the Ballidu district, returning to Perth to seek work as carpenters.

Turning eighteen, Len joined the Australian Militia, then transferred to the AIF, volunteering for a draft of specialist searchlight operators and gunners. At nineteen, he was in New Guinea and was home on leave as a returned soldier at the age of twenty.

Post WWII, Len became a builder. (back cover)