Last Truck Out

By: Betty Lockyer

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Paperback | 1 June 2009

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WWII 1942-Broome, pearling town on the far north coast of Western Australia. The enemy was snaking its way towards the Australian coastline. Broome was being evacuated. The resident Japanese and their families had already been interned. Aboriginal families were being trucked to Beagle Bay Mission, 120 km north, under the care of the German brothers and Irish nuns. Betty Lockyer's mother was on the last truck to leave Broome on 17 February, heavy with child. Worst fears were realised when the Japanese attacked Darwin. On 3 March they blew twenty-four Dutch flying boats out of the water in Broome. Men, women and children died. Betty was born two weeks later, safe in the relative peacefulness of the mission.

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A joyful ride through a life of loss. --Lissa Christoper, Sun Herald

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Introduction
Beagles Bay Mission
Last Truck Out	p. 2
Little Mission Girl	p. 23
The Garden of Eden	p. 35
Kimberley Kids	p. 42
Mission Life	p. 49
The Native Sisters	p. 68
Willy and Alice	p. 74
Growing Up in Broome
Holy Child Orphanage	p. 82
Down-The-Marsh Kids	p. 101
All Kinds of Gambling	p. 113
Chinatown	p. 127
The Things Girls Do	p. 138
Water	p. 148
Sun Pictures	p. 158
Robinson Street	p. 165
Siblings	p. 184
School Days
At School In Broome	p. 194
Father Bishop	p. 218
Ready For Perth	p. 227
Home At Last	p. 248
Leaving Time	p. 254
Glossary	p. 266
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