sentences:  The Coastwatchers played a significant and often underestimated part in the outcome of the War in the Pacific.Feldt was born in Ingham, North Queensland, on 3 January 1899, the eighth child of Swedish immigrants, Peter Nilsson Feldt, a cane farmer, and Augusta Blixt.Feldt attended the local school before winning a scholarship to Brisbane Grammar School where he boarded for a year.