Original title
A Fortunate Life
Released
4/27/1986
Origin country
AU
Genre
Drama
Production companies
PBL Productions
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
1
Number of episodes
4
At eight years old, an impoverished Bert Facey was forced to start the backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk life of a farm labourer. Unschooled, his father dead, abandoned by his mother, by the age of twenty he had survived the rigours of pioneering the harsh Australian bush and the slaughter of the bloody WWI campaign at Gallipoli.
Bert Facey's tormented early years through his father's death and harsh economic depression
Bert goes to work for the Phillips, a childless couple who treat him as one of the family.
Reunited with his mother after 12 years, Bert soon moves north to seek work.
A champion prize fighter, Bert enlists when WWI breaks out, surviving the nightmare of Gallipoli.
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