HMAS LEEUWIN 17TH INTAKE

HMAS Leeuwin - Junior Recruit Training Establishment  

October 1966 to October 1967

This website is dedicated to Michael John BROWN who passed away 3 December 2006
Mike did an enormous amount of work to make this site a reality

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[Lest We Forget]

Keith Ronald GALLIGAN (Deceased)

Naval Stores

There is a research team working at the hospital I went to and they have told me that even though this cancer is not 'asbestosis' they believe that there is a link between asbestos exposure and other lung cancers such as mine.

I am mentioning this in the hope that all others of the intake will have the asbestos check done. The amazing part of this is that I had no symptoms and when they gave me a breath capacity test my lung capacity was 120% for my age.

I did 14 years in pusser's, accrued all the normal things like a wife, kids and a mortgage. After leaving pusser's we settled in my home town of Redcliffe Qld and I joined the Prison Service as a screw and stores jockey for 10 years.

My wife and I then spent 3 months camping on Fraser Island. My next job was with the Redcliffe City Council, again as a storeman and after 10 years we decided to take long service leave and travel for 7 months. Well, we are the joke of the century as we got as far as the Daintree river, resigned our nice secure jobs back home and have been working and travelling for 5 years but still haven’t been out of Queensland.

What have I been doing?  Fishing, prospecting, fishing, prospecting and more fishing.

Personal photographs