![]() ![]() The Great Depression forced him to abandon the farm and he returned to Perth and his job with the tramways. Back in Perth, he married Evelyn Mary Gibson and was employed with the tramways prior to taking up a soldier-settler block at Wickepin. ![]() ![]() He was wounded during the Gallipoli campaign and discharged on health grounds in 1916. In 1915, Facey enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force. He went on to work at a range of rural jobs around Western Australia and then joined a boxing troupe. Soon after the turn of the century, and while still a young boy, he moved to Western Australia, with his grandmother and some of his siblings, and worked as a farmhand for several years before re-locating briefly to Perth. Following the death of his father and the re-marriage of his mother, Facey lived with his grandmother. Albert Barnett Facey, the youngest of seven children, spent his early years at Barkers Creek in Victoria. ![]()
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