Post War
Joynt and his wife rented, then bought, Tom Roberts’ old home, Talisman, at Kallista and lived there until they built their own home nearby.
Joynt wrote three books:
- To Russia and back through Communist Countries, Lothian Publishing, 1971 - travel through the Soviet Union
- Saving the Channel Ports 1918, Wren Publishing 1975 - a regimental history of the 8th Battalion
- Breaking the Road for the Rest, Hyland House, 1979 - autobiography
His wife Edith died in 1978. The last surviving of Australia’s World War I VC recipients, he died on 5 May 1986 at Windsor and was buried with full military honours in Brighton Cemetery. He had no children.
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Famous quotes containing the words post and/or war:
“My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes discuss the application of a compress or a wisp of hay under a broken limb, but not the bearing and merits of a political movement. I make gruel—not speeches; I write letters home for wounded soldiers, not political addresses.”
—Clara Barton (1821–1912)
“Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)