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Sixteen-year-old Vincent O’Farrell was too young to go to war, yet it was not enough to save his life. He drowned when washed off his horse while crossing Little Gin Creek, in the Longreach region, central Queensland, in 1917.   Newspapers reported a ‘black tracker’  unsuccessfully dived for the body. Little Gin Creek is aContinue reading “Too young to fight, but not too young to die ready”