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Once scorned, the fighting men of Budj Bim soar high
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Tony WrightAssociate editor and special writer
June 4, 2021 9.55am
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The Lovett brothers were fresh back from the most ruinous war the world had seen when they felt they deserved a beer among the other returned soldiers of their district.
They set out on foot in the uniforms of the Australian Imperial Force that four of them Alfred, Leonard, Edward and Herbert had worn through desperate days on the Western Front in France and Belgium. The fifth brother, Frederick, wore the jaunty outfit of the light horseman he had been in Palestine. It was mid-1919.