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| Official No: |
R95751 |
Aged: |
15 years 7 months |
Joined: |
8th October 1966 |
| Division: |
Morrow |
Home Port: |
Sydney |
Discharged: |
20th February 1968 |
| Branch: |
Steward |
Postings: |
Leeuwin, Sydney |
| Notes: |
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A Big thankyou to Ray for making contact. I am
very much looking forward to catching up with you all. I will
support any endeavour to help out those who travel long distances to
the 2006 reunion if it is to be held on the eastern seaboard. This
Website is, to me, the most fantastic concept to be derived. Well
done to everyone who started it & to all that are still maintaining
this wonderful site. I cannot explain it but the bond I feel for all
those in the 17th intake is overwhelming. |
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| Current Occupation: |
Retired TPI |
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| 1966 |
today |
Biography:
| After “Nightmare on
Sydney” (which still haunts me today) I headed back to Coffs
Harbour where I worked as a chippy’s assistant building &
fitting timber table tops for trucks at the local
International Truck Dealership for about six months. Then I
got a job as an assistant manager for an electrical
wholesale firm. Met my first wife in 68 & in 73 married,
separated & lost my job all in three months. Fell into a
job with the Dept. of Agriculture as a Plant Quarantine
Inspector which took me to Sydney, Day street Export-Import
Inspection & Fumigation centre, Glebe Island Silos (export
wheat), Rydalmere Research Institute (growing & testing
imported plants & seeds for diseases), Murrumbidgee
Irrigation Area (Fruit Quarantine) back to Day street &
Glebe Island then left in 77. After several de-facto
relationships since my marriage break-up & failure to
produce children (maybe it was something in the water) I met
my present wife Shirley in '78. Shirley had two boys (from
her previous marriage); Mark was 9 & Brett 6, which turned
out to be a big challenge. Shirley & I married in '81. The
boys were really happy because the other kids couldn’t tease
them about their mum living in sin. Mark is the Queensland
& Northern NSW Territory Manager for a Western Australian
company supplying fertilisers. Mark's previous job was 3IC
of the green keeping staff at Royal Pines Golf Resort on the
Gold Coast. Brett is currently on the green keeping staff
at Bonville International Golf Resort at Coffs Harbour. He
has just returned to Coffs after stints at Hope Island &
Sanctuary Cove Golf Resorts on the Gold Coast. We have
three grandchildren, Tahlia 8, Ty 4, Cody 3. Mark is
married to Tanya & Brett and Deb believe in partnership
without marriage. I owe a great deal to my wife, Shirley,
for if not for her I know for sure I would not be writing
this BIO today. She only has one fault, nagging & it always
happens about the time I open my first stubby & continues
till my last or she goes to bed, which ever comes first. |
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