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Home Base : Poems on Life as a Regular Force Cadet 1964-1966

Author :  Keith Westwater (Eds), Mary McCallum & Sophie Miller

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Country
New Zealand
Publisher
The Cuba Press, New Zealand
ISBN 9781988595467
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2021
Bib. Info 186p.
Product Weight 300 gms.
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Keith's stepmother 'Maw' gives him an ultimatum - at fifteen he either leaves school to work or joins the army. So, Keith departs Auckland and reports to the Waiouru military camp, enlisting as a regular force cadet. Home Base is a snapshot of Keith Westwater's boy-soldier life in the New Zealand Army during the 1960s. From a motherless and peripatetic childhood in No One Home, the sequel Home Base is where Keith finally finds a place to call home: underneath Mount Ruapehu's shadow and amongst his fellow cadets. From spit-polished 'brightly black' boots to doing 'the marchie marchie', Home Base is a candid and often humorous look at the lives of Regular Force Cadets. It's also a memoir of Keith's adolescence depicted through handwritten diary entries, photographs, maps and poems.

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