Born in the Colac pub on the docks of Port Adelaide South Australia before Australia federated, went to WW1, to "Irwin House" near Dongara WA in 1926, back to SA sometime after 1927, then off to "New Britain" in 1933. In Rabaul in 1942 when the Japanese invaded, listed as one of the civilians who died on the "Montevideo Maru" in July 1942. This man lived through many of the big events in Australia's history. He was the friend of Victor Lindsay Clyde Brougham, my Father-in-Law.Over however much time it takes I would like to tell his story, sometimes as a biography, sometimes as a history-based fiction as close as I can be to "truth".
In chasing information I have discovered that place of birth can be quite different from place where birth is registered!!
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