Jack Lusby

[5] Jack Lusby was a successful and prolific Australian black and white artist, cartoonist and short-story writer.

[7] Maria Lusby Simms edited, transcribed and provided military and historical context for Jack's war diaries.

Jack's siblings also gave distinguished service in the war effort: brother Maurice Lusby was sent to Washington and London as Australian Scientific Research Liaison Officer.

Sister Gwen commanded the Medical Division at Concord Military Hospital - one of the first women Majors in the Australian Army.

Youngest brother Robert Lusby was captured with the 2/30th Battalion at Singapore and died on the Burma Railway, while sister Judith was recruited into naval intelligence with the WRANS.