Greetings,
I landed in Panguna 30/11/71 and found myself unwanted as I was the first mechanic on site for BCL light vehicles so I was shunted around for a week or so until I ended up working with BECHTEL until they started to be phased out. I shared a donga at camp 1 with Bob Methkie. Ended up leading hand Panguna and Loloho.I left mid 74 joined the 'WESER CARRIER' as deck engineer and was implemental in the delivery of the first of the 210's from L.A.
I am at present semi retired and a volunteer engineer on the 78 yr old steam tug 'FORCEFUL' at the QMMA.
regards, Hamish. hamish7@bigpond.com
