One of Brunswick and Coburg's best known identities will be speaking at Brunswick Library at 6.30pm on Thursday 9 May.
Phil Cleary has been a champion footballer and Independent Member of Parliament and a campaigner against domestic violence. He has delved into his family and local history to compile this fascinating story of Brunswick families during and after the Second World War.
Phil's grandfather Ted Dorian was one of five young men living in and around Barry Street who enlisted in 1940-41. Ted and two of the others were captured by the Germans in Greece in 1941 and spent four years in POW camps in Austria. Meanwhile Ted's young wife Gladys was working at Miller's Ropeworks. Ted returned from the war (unlike his brother Roy who was killed in New Guinea in 1943) but suffering from severe PTS which impacted on him, Gladys and the rest of the family for the rest of their lives.