Songs of an Airman

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Excerpt from Songs of an Airman: With a Memoir "After breakfast I had a heart-to-heart talk to my tailor and came back in all my war-paint. I looked an awful kid in it, too, I suppose I am, for that matter." - Letter from A. G. N. Wall, dated May 11, 1917, three months before his death." Arthur Geoffrey Nelson Wall was born at Liscard, Cheshire, on March 3, 1897.His father, Mr. A. E. Wall, having been appointed manager of the Australasian branch of the London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Coy., the family came to Melbourne early in 1907, and in April of that year Geoffrey Wall entered the Wesley College Preparatory School. At the beginning of 1911 he was promoted to the "big" school, and in 1912 he paid a visit to the old country with his parents, returning to Melbourne at the end of the year. The following three years he spent at Wesley College which he left in December, 1915, to proceed to the University, where as an undergraduate of Queen's College he passed the first year of the Arts course. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.