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https://theblurb.com.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/rsz_soldierboy_photography_bysmwimage-97.jpg800532It is October 1915. Private James Martin (Oliver Tapp) is lying in bed on the hospital ship the Glenart Castle coughing his lungs out. Memories of his family back home in Australia come flooding back. This is the story of a boy who, after blackmailing his parents, enlisted in the Army, having falsified his age....