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Portrait of Frank Davis, headmaster of the State School, Drouin, Victoria

Fitzpatrick, Jim, 1916-

 

Title devised by cataloguer from caption on verso.; Condition: Good.; Part of the collection: Drouin town and rural life during World War II.; "U429/2. This is Frank H. Davis, the Mr. Chips of Drouin. Headmaster of the State School, he is married with no children of his own, but teaches 212 other people's. He is aged 60; will be compulsorily retired in five years; has taught in 20 schools since he began as a monitor at the age of 14. Davis is of Welsh pioneering stock."--Printed on label.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24165452.

 

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Uploaded on September 23, 2011
Taken sometime in 1944