Page 7 - Bella Vista Gardens Newsletter Autumn 2018

7 BELLA VISTA NEWS, AUTUMN 2018

Happy Birthday

March

1 March Marta M.

2 March Judith L.

5 March Ned W.
5 March Vera R.

6 March Mimi B.
Meet David Murray
7 March Alfred A.

8 March Shirley M.
David was born on 16 December torrential rains. He felt so
23 March Charanjit S.
1926, living with his parents and impressed and proud to witness
29 March Ron W. brother in India. David went to such a regal animal, that he
live with his grandparents when ordered his men not to shoot.
31 March Nadia J & Jean S. it was time to go to school. He
told me they rode in a trap He also recalled being sent to
April (horse and cart), which was a clear a runway where the
bone-jarring ride! He vegetation had grown very tall
3 April Lorna D.
remembers playing tennis with and with the combination of the
4 April Joan C. his brother when World War II silt, had covered the runway. He
broke out, with the young men saw jungle fowl and took
6 April Iain S. that had signed up for the war advantage of this to shoot a few
yelling at them to get under for the officers’ mess. Another
6 April Betty M. cover as the Japanese bombers soldier asked permission to
flew overhead. shoot a couple for the enlisted
9 April Reg K.
men’s mess. He was given
11 April Anne M. Later after finishing university permission. This soldier did not
he received his call up into the return for roll call that night or
15 April Merrilyn S. military academy. This changed the next morning. He did turn
his life. David joined the Indian up later that morning, hungry
19 April Judith C. Army, after the British decided and tired. He said that elephants

26 April Janice K. to part with the British Indian had emerged where he was
Army. David vividly recalls being hunting the jungle fowl and he
28 April Bettine W. sent out to train men to patrol ended up climbing a tree, where
an area where wildlife animals he stayed for the night, clinging
May were known to be around. It tightly as the elephants rubbed
was the time of year when the up against the tree.
1 May Florence W. monsoon rains came. They were

7 May Linda M. sitting in the back of a truck on a David was an officer in the
knoll of a hill when the ground Indian Army for 23 years. He
8 May Sydney C. either end of the truck was migrated to Australia with his
washed away. A large tiger wife, Christine and children
18 May Elsa G. came up next to the truck. David Carol and Keith where he
said you could have reached worked at the Water Board for
22 May Pixie B. down and touched it. He 15 years until he retired.
26 May Allison W. realised the animal was also
trying to find refuge from the