Jackson Mobbs' great escape for the love of his life

By Marianne McDade
Updated September 23 2013 - 3:08pm, first published 10:35am

JACKSON Mobbs loved his Daylesford beau so much he went AWOL from the Australian Army during World War II, jumped from a moving train and travelled almost 900 kilometres just so he could marry her.

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