Geoffery Doolah and Godfrey Daylight at Cherbourg State School 1959

Geoffery Doolah was an evacuee fro Thursday Island in the Second World War. He stays on in Cherbourg after the war and becomes an dormitory superviser, a school teacher and as a talented musician performs in many of the concert parties.

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