Skye L. Gibson has provided pictures and info about one of Ernie's life long friends, her grandad who played in a college soccer team with Ernie.
Some of college team
Was during the "Classing the Clip" on the Jandowae sheep station.
Ted Tovey's name is still chalked on a beam in the Shearing Shed at least 80 years on.
Ernie reported that while the lads washed their hands at mealtime, the shearers went straight in and ate all the food. The Chinese cook run amuck after someone took a cooling Poloni from a kitchen windowsill. He confronted them with a large knife.
Was during the "Classing the Clip" on the Jandowae sheep station.
Ted Tovey's name is still chalked on a beam in the Shearing Shed at least 80 years on.
Ernie reported that while the lads washed their hands at mealtime, the shearers went straight in and ate all the food. The Chinese cook run amuck after someone took a cooling Poloni from a kitchen windowsill. He confronted them with a large knife.
Ted Tovey .
Ted who was unable to join Ernie in RAAF so joined AIF and was captured at Tobruk. and spent the rest of the war a prisoner so that he only learned of Ernie's death when released.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/180187915/edward-coryndon-tovey
Ted who was unable to join Ernie in RAAF so joined AIF and was captured at Tobruk. and spent the rest of the war a prisoner so that he only learned of Ernie's death when released.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/180187915/edward-coryndon-tovey