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Just a man called Phonse : the anything but ordinary life of A. V. (Phonse) Tobin

Tobin, Des, 1938-2018
The life of Phonse Tobin was anything but ordinary. Born in 1905, he followed on behind soldiers as they marched to the wharves to depart for WW1. He earned pocket money by trapping rats and collecting the South Melbourne Council's rat bounty, and almost 'haunted' the Collins Street movie and liv...
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