Rod Sawford (Port Adelaide, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Exactly: in Sattleberg in New Guinea—Lieutenant Thomas Currie Derrick. He grew up in my electorate, in Exmouth Road in Glanville in South Australia. He lived during the Depression. Like my father—he did not go with my father—in those times, when unemployment was so bad, as 14-year-olds they all got on their bikes and rode up to the Riverland. My father did the same. Derrick worked on fruit blocks, while my father went as far as Wentworth and worked on some of those old paddle steamers.

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