Days to remember !!
Now i really don't know what to say, but what i do for a living does have some great things about it like all the furniture i want at great prices.
But it has some shitty parts to it as well , Recently i had to go and pick up some furniture and other things from a deceased estate. His name was Jack and he lived in and around Warragul for most of his life now i don't now much about him but as i was collecting his stuff ( it really does suck sometimes ) his son just wanted everything gone and what we didn't take was going in the bin , now i don't like to waist anything so i dug through a few things in his shed and took them home for Nic just wash tubs and bits and pieces. But in the skip i found heaps and i mean heaps of negatives .
I scanned a few and played around with them for a while .
I just wanted to get this done as someone has to remember he was a pilot in the R.A.A.F based at Laverton , he was shipped over to Japan by the looks of some of the photos i have looked at.
I hated to think all his old war items would be going into the bin, i also found his air force leather cap and gloves i have placed them in a cupboard till i find his son but he hasn't returned my phone calls , Unfortunately some people just get the money we pay and leave never to be seen again.
He must have been a very lucky man as so many did not return.........
So in the next few days i will be remembering all those that have fought for Australia and i hope you will be too, Spare a thought for Jack and his mates i know i will....
Thanks fellas
Cya
But it has some shitty parts to it as well , Recently i had to go and pick up some furniture and other things from a deceased estate. His name was Jack and he lived in and around Warragul for most of his life now i don't now much about him but as i was collecting his stuff ( it really does suck sometimes ) his son just wanted everything gone and what we didn't take was going in the bin , now i don't like to waist anything so i dug through a few things in his shed and took them home for Nic just wash tubs and bits and pieces. But in the skip i found heaps and i mean heaps of negatives .
I scanned a few and played around with them for a while .
I just wanted to get this done as someone has to remember he was a pilot in the R.A.A.F based at Laverton , he was shipped over to Japan by the looks of some of the photos i have looked at.
I hated to think all his old war items would be going into the bin, i also found his air force leather cap and gloves i have placed them in a cupboard till i find his son but he hasn't returned my phone calls , Unfortunately some people just get the money we pay and leave never to be seen again.
He must have been a very lucky man as so many did not return.........
So in the next few days i will be remembering all those that have fought for Australia and i hope you will be too, Spare a thought for Jack and his mates i know i will....
Thanks fellas
Cya
posted by Nathan Finlayson at 9:18 PM
2 Comments:
Wow, isn't it sad to see that such a man has largely been forgotten. He must have lived a fascinating life too! These pictures tell a thousand words.
Oh wow! Not sure if it's too late or not, but perhaps you could send them on to the War Memorial in Canberra? I just finished reading Flickers of History by William Carty, if you can get a hold of it, it's a great read about a photographer in WWII.
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