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Foods
He likes any food really but he tries to steer clear from sour food.
He is a real sweet tooth aswell.
He also likes food from other countries like indian and chinese. -
Born
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Family life
He had two brothers and a sister. He played alot with the brothers in the atic a lot but he didn't play with the sister because she was much older. He also did boy scouts and that was fun. -
Earliest childhood memory
He had a lung diesese called teberculosis and he had to go to hospital and the food he got there was bread dipped in milk and now he does not like wet bread -
War Broke Out
World War II -
Worst thing during the war
Bombing and seeing the dead people on the floor.
Also seeing the people coming from the consentration camps -
Him and his brother stole wood for fire
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Coldest recorded temp in Holland
-29 degrees celcius -
School life
Rligious school the students were not very nice. One bully clipped you by the ear and twisted it apart from that he couldn't remenber much and it wasn't very impressive -
Boy Scouts
He did it with his brothers for fun after the war of course
He also tried soccer but it dindn't work out -
Holland liberated
War Ended and everyone was starving then the red cross organised that the Americans, English and Canadians to instead of dropping bombs they would drop food in parcels and he was standing on a roof, six stories high and him and his brothers could see the planes at eye level flying past and the pilots were waving -
First taste of chocolate
He was twelve -
Dream Job
Engineering but he didn't get the job because it was to expensive to go to university -
First Job
He did banking but he didn't like it there and the pay was bad -
Met Oma
My Opa met Oma on a dance when Opa was in the dutch army because it was comulsury to join the army back then and he did it for 26 months -
Got Engaged
Got engaged in Holland -
Migration
Oma and Opa moved to Australia because his brother in the meantime was creating a buisness but it didn't go so well so he moved here. -
Birth of 1st child
Glen -
Started studying for an aircraft engineer
He wanted to start working with aircraft so he started studying to be an aircraft engineer -
Started working as an aircraft engineer
Joined Illawarra flying school -
Birth of 2nd child
Rodney -
Helped to run an aviation comany
One of the people working said asked for his help with a company and it was quite succesful -
Birth of last child (my mum)
Sonja -
Joined Ansett
Joined Ansett as an aircraft engineer -
Ansett closed
Since the Ansett closure he retiered and took on part time work as an aircraft engineer at an aviation company in Bankstown -
Birth of fourth grandchild
Emma -
Birth of fifth grandchild (me)
Ben -
Birth of sixth grandchild
Joe
