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My grandmother's brother, who lived with us, the family farm was in through my grandmother and her brother, and he was in the second AIF. He was 2/2nd Battalion. And around ANZAC Day when I was really young, we would have all of Gundy's, who was my great uncle, all of his mates would turn up and they'd be around for a couple of weeks, and a lot of memories with those old fellas.
And I become quite close to one of Gundy's very good mates and he was sort of like a mentor, second grandfather figure to me, because both my grandfathers passed before I could remember them fully. So they may have been sort of an influence, but also I'd left school in... finished end of 1977, and all of '78 I was a full-time hand, working on the farm with my father, and I just thought, "I need to get out and see a bit of the world." If this was going to be my life, I wanted to have a bit of an adventure before I became a full-time farmer.
