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Posted on January 17th, 2008 at 5:15pm —
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Nancy D
Thank you for including me among your friends!
All the best for 2008,
Laura
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Hi. Thanks for the invite. How about this for a story outline.........
Australian soldier and his brother join the Australian Mounted Light Infantry and are sent to South Africa to fight in the Boer War. There one brother meets a luscious English lass from Cumbria recuperating from consumption in the warm dry high altitude conditions that Johannesburg has. They fall in love and get married after the war. They stay and make a home and have lots of kids. The brothers setup a trading company that does trade between South Africa, Rhodesia, Australia and England etc. etc etc.
There is a ton of info on Aussie soldiers going to South Africa to fight (Breaker Morant etc) and staying on after.
The Boer War was quickly followed by WWI - Galipoli, Flanders, Delville Wood etc and then of course by WWII. You could have a whole double trilogy here.
The story I've just outlined is that of my Grandparents and I'm so busy with my books I probably wont get around to writing it any time soon. However a HF story based on a real life story always rings a bit more true.......
Cheers
John
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