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All,
You will probably have seen, on the box and / or in the press, including in the Townsville Bulletin re the “high” adventure of Ian Smith and daughter, Carmen. Youngest daughter, Alicia has given us an update. The headline was “Miracle field surgery gives pilot a fighting chance”, see above.
Woodstock is situated about 30 minutes drive from Townsville. We are so pleased to be able to report to you that Ian is now speaking to his family and some of the tubes have been removed. In close attendance are Veronica and the girls. The other daughters are Andrea and Emily.
When we were gathering our Townsville pack out crew, Ian was one of the first people we called.
In Bougainville Ian was, for several years during the 80`s, a member of the Technical Services, Power Reticulation, Despatch Dept, reporting through to Paul Cusack.
A big thank you to our Townsville journalist, Stan Neal.
We spent the Christmas to New Years week on Norfolk island. Even at this remote outpost we find people who share with us the Bougainville heritage.
I visited Alan and Polly Walpole and Ken Morgan and his family. Alan and his father Alf were in the Pit workshop and Ken was a carpenter supervisor at Loloho.
We somehow missed the passing of David Alan (Dave) Cunningham around 12 months ago. However we thank Haggis for announcing it on the Facebook page. We send to Vera and Joy our very best regards.
Dave was born in 1938. After a stint in the UK Military including time with SAS, he became a highly skilled specialist welder, mainly based in Australia. In 1975 he built the Hornibrooks complex, in Arawa. From here he was approached by BCL. Dave worked out of Panguna for some 13 years. He completed a lot of project and maintenance works on our P & H shovels. If required to define Dave in a word the first one that springs to mind is “gentleman”.
Thanks, Haggis.
Roy Goldsworthy is kindly sharing with us his library of BCL Newsletters and Concentrates magazines. We will trickle them to you over the next 12 months. Our first is from February of 1972 (to read, click on this link: 1972 No 2 Feb.pdf
Lastly, see the picture below, sighted by one of our number (wantok@me.com), entering a garage in Broadbeach
Regards
Davo
John@johndavidson.com.au
http://johndavidsonbougainville.blogspot.com.au
0418 784 186
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