Talk:Garfield Finlay

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Untitled[edit]

Please excuse (and change) any Americanisms that crept in during creation.

Georgejdorner (talk) 17:28, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Author?[edit]

Was he by any chance the author of Eat to live too?[1] Theroadislong (talk) 16:43, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, road,

I haven't the foggiest notion. Perhaps Dr Christine would know??

Georgejdorner (talk) 16:45, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Date of death...[edit]

Finlay died in Melbourne, Victoria, aged 65 in 1958 according to Desert Column Forum [[2]] Not sure how reliable this reference would be considered though?Theroadislong (talk) 19:12, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

His grand-daughter states he died in 1961.Georgejdorner (talk) 16:11, 28 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sources[edit]

G'day, there are a number of references to Finlay in Volume VIII – The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern Theatres of War, 1914–1918 of the Official History, by Cutlack. This work is available online in pdf format here: [3]. According to the index, there are references on the following pages: 87, 98, 106, 111, 113, 118, 122, 131, 135, 138, 140, 142, 143, 144, 153, 155, 159, 165 and 167. I don't have the time at the moment to go through them all, so I am listing them here for anyone else that might be keen. I did a bit of work on the Australian Flying Corps and the 12th Light Horse Regiment (Australia) articles so I will look through my sources for other references (Michael Molkentin's Fire in the Sky might have something). BTW, good work so far. Thanks for your efforts. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 00:37, 28 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, all,

I went through all the handy page references in Volume VIII (many thanks, Rupert). They are mainly useful for setting Finlay's feats in a historical setting. I did glean a good paragraph, and a couple of useful facts from this source.

Georgejdorner (talk) 20:03, 28 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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