An Australian Child's View of The Second World War

An Autobiographical account of the years 1939 through 1945 at Gardiner Central School. The tensions and concerns of the time covering local area, school and family interactions. A stressful time in Australia reflected through the inquiring eyes of a schoolboy.

A book for local historians about Gardiner Central School and the district of Malvern and Glen Iris,

including the small village of Tooronga where the Rickarby family lived at 6 Creswick street.

No 6 was well known at the time for the 6 tennis courts behind the house, which hosted all kinds of tennis competitions and social events before the war which stopped almost overnight as players enlisted to fight.

Geoffrey graduated in medicine from Melbourne University (1956).

He went on to become a child psychiatrist, being honoured in 2012 with the OAM for his work with relinquishing mothers.