PATERSON'S YELLOW BAY - Graham Fredriksen

[manfredvijars]

At fifty years of age, poet A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson enlisted in the A.l.F. in the Great War. He served in Egypt and the Holy Lands as an officer in the 2nd Aust. Remount Unit (nicknamed the 'Horse-dung Hussars.
(The Yellow Bay was a different horse to "Bill the Bastard")

PATERSON'S YELLOW BAY
© Graham Fredriksen 1956 - 2010

[warooa]

Good onya Manfred . . tis always a pleasure to read Grahams writing.

Cheers, Marty

[Maureen K Clifford]

Old Graham was a master at his craft - I've read this before and loved and read it again and marvelled. Story telling at its absolute best. what a delight to read.

Cheers

Maureen

[Heather]

Wow, what a brilliant poem and story. Thanks for posting Manfred.

Heather

[manfredvijars]

... feeling a tad rebellious there Matty?

Yes, what a loss to Australian literature ...

[Neville Briggs]

Spelling people's names right isn't pedantic it's a requirement, isn't it..Mattt.


Thanks for the poem Manfred.

[Heather]

Oh, goody, can I have more too Neville?

Heattther

Doesn't have the same look to it does it?

[Neville Briggs]

No

[Glenny Palmer]

Four ''t's''....FOUR! I'm having an attack of the vapours....

[thestoryteller]

Graham was one of the best and it was a pleasure to have known him.


The Storyteller