The ANZAC's Son. . . Reg's Story.

Cafe’s Locked Out Mailing List · May 9, 2026 · 40m

From the front of the condemned house, you could see the bay where the Anzacs had left to reach the shores of Gallipoli.

He was sitting on a camp chair when I entered. The room was lit by the weak afternoon sun and he was full of cancer. He had a great story that he couldn’t see. He was Boxer from Animal Farm.

A working-class man who’d been working ever since he was five or six, when his father, a farmer, taught him how to drive the tractor.

He left school in Year Eight with two As and a B for everything else. Remarkably, he first got his licence driving a semi.

His father drove him to town…