Perhaps it was during our regular correspondence after I moved to Australia, or perhaps it was on one of his visits to Australia, but when my father finally realized that I was interested to know something about the 45-odd years of his life before I was born, he devoted days and weeks of his time writing his memoirs for my benefit. He typed earlier chapters on his old mechanical typewriter before moving on to an electric typewriter to complete the later ones. After his death, I had these transcribed into digital format by Chinese copiers, which involved me in the lengthy task of correcting all their errors. Not being 100% error-free myself I may have missed some, but I believe that the resulting document is a reasonable representation of what my father wrote.

The memoirs were written in several segments in the following order:

I have copied four of these texts into HTML format, and have included illustrations in most of them. I am now working on a combined volume in which the sections of "The Missing Years" are placed chronolocally into the sections of Episodes, to create a more comprehensive document including illustrations from my father's photograph collection.

This work is still in progress, but it can be found in its current state by clicking here.