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and the beloved heroes they contain

were to become his most famous work

With exclusive contributions by family members and advisers

Anzac and Aviator: The Remarkable Story of Sir Ross Smith and the 1919 England to Australia Air Race Bobsledding When Melisande StokesRaised on a remote South Australian sheep station in the dying days of Australia's colonial frontier, there was little in Ross Smith's childhood that suggested a future as one of Australia's great pioneering aviators. He went to war in 1914, serving with the light horse at Gallipoli and in the Sinai before volunteering for the fledgling Australian Flying Corps. In a new dimension of warfare, Ross Smith survived two grueling years of aerial combat over