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- [1983?] (Creation)
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[132] leaves; 33 cm.
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Thomas Lowah was born in 1914 in the Torres Strait Islands. He worked as a diver on pearling luggers which worked the waters of the Torres Strait and the Great Barrier Reef. Thomas joined the army in World War Two and was part of the Torres Strait Light Infantry Battalion. At the end of the war he went back to the luggers. He later moved to North Queensland, working a number of jobs. He retired to live in Cairns where he wrote his autobiography. He died in 1989.
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Two copies of the photocopied typescripts and handwritten pages that are drafts and / or notes that relate to the autobiography of Thomas Lowah titled Eded mer (My life), published by Rams Skull Press in 1988.
The first section of typescript leaves is titled 'The life of Thomas Lowah' and has has 76 leaves. The next section, a typescript photocopy is thirty six leaves in length with a handwritten note 'second time' on the first page. The third section is a copy of the preamble of the 'Constitution and Rules of the Torres Strait Islanders and Aborigines Ex-Servicemens Corporation', two leaves. The next section is a photocopy of thirteen handwritten leaves. The last section is a photocopy of five typescript pages with the first page having the heading 'Trip to Brisbane and South East Qld on TSLI Committee's Matters', with agenda and notes from meetings in February 1983.
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- English
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- Lowah, Thomas, 1914- (Subject)
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Revised
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Revised, Linda Justo, 31-May-2023. Revised, SJB, 23-Nov-2022. Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.