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    Memories
    Memories
    Memories
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    Memories

    By Raymond Boyd Dunn

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    Ten Anecdotes of the author's life experiences - taken mainly from the early years. The reader will find plenty of nostalgia in this one.
    (A compendium of three books = "There's one born every minute", "Give it to Dad!" and "Home is where the Heart is.")

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaymond Boyd Dunn
    Release dateJan 25, 2012
    ISBN9781465718778
    Memories
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    Raymond Boyd Dunn

    Raymond Boyd Dunn is a "born and bred" third generation Australian. After his retirement Raymond Boyd became a grey nomad, and, with his wife, spent some time touring this vast country of Australia. He was born in the small Burnett Valley town of Monto, Queensland, and for his entire life has answered to the name of 'Boyd'. Apart from his travels he has lived all of his life in Queensland, and after satisfying his thirst for seeing first hand this wonderful country we live in, settled on the Sunshine Coast to spend his remaining years in the sunshine near the beach.He commenced his working life as a Bank Officer and resigned after thirteen years to become self-employed. At various stages he has owned a Corner Store, a small Supermarket Chain, a Butchery, a Milk Run, a Printery and a Cattle and Grain Farm. He has been involved, in various capacities, in Cricket and Tennis Clubs; Jaycees, Lions and Rotary Clubs and Aero Clubs. He was a Cricketer, played tennis, tried to play golf, and was a keen long distance runner.Upon taking a well-earned retirement he wrote his unpublished autobiography, which was for distribution among his family of six children and numerous grand-children. A visit to Cooktown, where he learnt of the Palmer River Gold Rush, was the incentive to keep writing and produce his first novel 'Palmer Gold' He then settled down to write novels, producing two more books to complete a Trilogy...'An Australian Ranch' and "Carly and Sam...Will and Effie'. There followed numerous short stories, and other novels: 'Lord of the Manor in Australia', and 'The Vintage Years'. He continues to write whilst enjoying life in the sunshine on the beautiful Sunshine Coast in Queensland.

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      Memories - Raymond Boyd Dunn

      Memories

      by Raymond Boyd Dunn

      Copyright 2012 Raymond Dunn

      Smashwords Edition

      Contents

      1. A Boy's Memory of War

      2. Give it to Dad

      3. The Telegram Boy

      4. Discipline - Then and now

      5. Inherited Traits

      6. There's one born every minute

      7. I remember the day I was born

      8. The Bush Fires

      9. My First Car

      10. Home is where the Heart is.

      ........................

      1. A Boy's Memory of War

      I was nine years of age when Australia followed England into what became the Second World War, and fifteen years of age when peace was declared.

      It didn't mean much to me at the beginning because, with the confidence of the very young, the outcome was never in doubt. In fact, for a boy it was a great adventure. The primary school yard had a long zig-zag slit trench which was the source of much fun during air raid practice, which occurred regularly. My father dug a trench in our backyard which was put to great use in our games with wooden guns. I lost count of the number of the enemy that I eliminated. Our Headmaster was a Gallipoli veteran who lost an eye during that campaign, and often forgot to put in his replacement glass eye before coming to school. Someone would be sent across to the school residence to fetch it. He was easily distracted from the lesson in hand. All someone had to do was ask a question about the Great

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