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.
Grandma Carr
Roy Facey
Eric Facey
Bert (9 Years)
Bert (14 Years)
Bert
Alice McCall
Archie McCall
Jock McKay
Cop
Jack Lander
Young Alice McCall
Bert's Mother
Bad Bob
Charlie Bibby
Narrator (voice)
