Description
John Vosti is the father of a large family living in Ascot Vale during the Great War. In 1917 he is working at the Cordite Factory, Maribyrnong, and playing with the Essendon City Council Band. His eldest son, Les, is in France with the AIF as a bandsman/stretcher-bearer.
John Vosti’s diaries, covering 1917 to 1920, give a detailed account of the daily life of a working family caught up in the struggle of a nation at war. Anxiously awaiting news from their soldier son, they participate in pro-Conscription rallies and patriotic events. At the war’s end the struggle continues with industrial disputes affecting their jobs, while the Spanish flu epidemic rages through the district.
These unique diaries offer a special insight into the life of an ordinary working family in a difficult period in Australia’s history.
ISBN: 978-0-9580558-2-6
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