Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

As recalled by his great nephew Wayne Parker.

George served in WW2-He recalled to me that one of his jobs was to fix explosives to the southern pillon of The Sydney Harbour Bridge in the event the Japanese got up the harbour.He also has left me a couple of photos of him and his fellow heroes .They had captured this Japanese sub in borneo 1944(see picture). And him and his patrol going through the Borneo hinterland in their troopie(Pic).

George upon arriving back home was told the news his Fiancee had been killed in the bombing of Darwin and it affected him so much he never went on a date again.
His brick laying was his life -up at 5 breaky with his mum who he lived with till her passing in 1980. Stack the bricks himself ,make the mud in a barrow and lay 1000 per day .He was legend in The Shoalhaven(Nowra)area.
His father had laid the bricks for the original bridge on The Shoalhaven River_Nowra).
He told me he laid his 1st brick with his dad in 1922 he was only 9 and I personally watch him layer his last at the ripe age of 92 on my house having removed the whole back of the house bricks to mix with the new ones.(Pic teaching my 2 sons Aaron(6) and Jeremy(2) how to clean the old bricks).He was a legend with young children-crying give him 5 minutes max.

He was my 2nd dad as being the son of a naval officer away with HMAS Melbourne_Great Uncle George turned up to my first soccer game at 8 (1970 Huskisson)and had some of the other parents horrified that my dad was so old_he was my mum's uncle.lol
He died in a nursing home having never marched but was always up at dawn to remember his mates.I describe him "as the greatest waste of a father ever".Some of my mates used to a talk to my uncle about stuff they could not tell their parents.

Wayne