This is an entry in a year-long project to post-blog the demobilisation experience for British servicemen at the end of the Second World War. See here for an introduction to the project and here for a brief overview of the demobilisation process.
In Canberra, reports the Times, Australia's newly appointed Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell has announced to the House of Representatives that the Dominion and Great Britain have come to an agreement allowing, in principle, demobilized UK servicemen and -women free passage to resettle in the Antipodes. "Australia wants and will welcome new, healthy citizens determined to become good Australians by adoption," Mr. Calwell said.
The Times also reports that British aircraft sank a Japanese destroyer and three other enemy vessels in the Tokyo area on Monday. Three aircraft and their pilots were lost in the attack.
And so we move ever closer to my childhood, when every older skilled tradesman down at the pulp mill was some kind of veteran with a European accent.
Posted by: Erik Lund | Monday, 03 August 2009 at 02:27 PM