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Radschool Newsletter |
Vol 10 Page 10 |
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Where are they now? |
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If you know where any of these people are now, please let us know.
And if you’re looking for a long lost mate, send us your “Where are they now” photos along with a few words. Perhaps we can help find him/her. |
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Ted Washbrook from the West writes:-
“G’day all, I’d like some help trying to find Joe [Graeme] Mercer. I first met Joe in Darwin after cyclone Tracy and at that time he worked at 11 mile transmitters. He was posted from there to Radschool as an instructor but this didn't suit him and he pulled the pin. After discharge he worked for some time at 8DN the TV station, then I believe he went to Brisbane then I think he may have gone back to England to get away from his first wife, he originally came from Exeter.”
Over to you—can anyone help??
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Billy (Goat) Lewis, right, who at one stage was a sparky at Richmond, is shown here with John (Porky) Donohue, ex clock winder, at a bar-b-q in the Blue Mountains in 1969. Rumour has it Bill got a DCM some years later, (we believe Sqn Ldr Pete DeJonge officiated) and since then has dropped out of sight and no-one seems to know where he is. Can any-one help??
John now lives in the Brisbane area and is still with Air Liquide where he’s been since his D while Pete DeJonge lives about 50 klms south of Brisbane.
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We had an email from a Josephine Bradley who now lives and flies aircraft in the US. Jo did her flight training in 1986-88 while she was in the Air Training Corps at the Oakey Army Base and at Amberley. Her instructor was a RAAF pilot named Russell Lucas, and Jo wrote to ask if we could find Russell for her as she would like to get in touch again and talk pilot stuff.
Does any-one know where Russell is these days—Jo thinks he might still be in the RAAF, so if you can help please let us know.
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We’ve had a few requests to finds Laurie Phibbs who it seems was well know and well liked by a bunch of people. From what we can find out, Laurie was a Radtech A in 1967/8 and was posted to 11 Sqn while it was at Richmond and still flying the old dirty coloured Neppies. Prior to 11 Sqn, he was at 38 Sqn, but as they (38) was short on techs, he was consistently being loaned back to keep those electronic platforms of the air—in the air.
From what we can find
out, we think that he spent a while with Det A in Port Moresby while
on loan, and only got to go back to 11 Sqn when blokes like Laurie Gray, Allan George and Dave Lugg, (the last 2 straight from
Brattsville) turned up at 38 to relieve the pressure. We believe
that Laurie Gray was involved in a bad bus accident (as a passenger)
and helped save some
Phibbsy, as he was called, was on loan to 38 at the same time as Bill Coyer, Ian Taylor, Black Jack McKinnen, (every-one’s got a story about Black Jack) Ron Clayton and “how Hi’s the Fi” Lance Hayward were there.
Laurie Gray at Radschool 1967.
Does any-one know where the Lauries are?? |
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