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From the beginning of her army career she kept a diary that provides a unique visual record of the C.W.A.C life during the war that spans from
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Last Dance in Shediac: Memories of Mum, Molly Lamb Bobak.
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803:. Toronto: Art Canada Institute.
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385:National Gallery of Canada
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157:Canada's war artists
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616:"Molly Bobak's War"
495:. Published. 1972.
340:Life in Fredericton
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168:Early life
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666:cite book
284:In 1992
253:Gas Drill
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