Albert Morris was born on 13 August 1886 in Bridgetown, South Australia. Faced with the depression in the South Australia of the late 1880s, Morris's father sought work in the new mines of the Barrier ranges and moved his family to Broken Hill to live.
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A heap o’ sun an’ shadder, an’ ye sometimes have t’ roam
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