Track 1

0.00-1.30      Early years, clearing land

1.30-2.40      Cutting wood (including comments by Bill Palmer)

2.40-3.58      Charlie leaves school, works for his father

3.58-5.40      Share of farm, building a house, marriage

5.40-6.56      Cow shed, milking machine

6.56-7.25      Sport

7.25-8.31      Move to Drouin. Life is busy.

Charlie Thomson Eulogy

 

Track one:

Introduction by Sandy Ward

 

Track two:

Written and read by Sandy Ward

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00.13                 Charlie’s Birth

00.24                 Move to Cloverlea

00.41                 Worked on farm

00.50                 Met his wife

01.15                 Children arrive

02.26                 Retirement, holidays & fishing

03.30                 Cricket, card nights

04.50                 First ride in an ambulance

05.24                 His memory

05.37                 Stories of Drouin

06.09                 Lyrebird, food preferences

07.11                 Work ethic

 

Track three:

Written by Heather Sullivan and read by Sandy Ward

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00.36                                     Cutting logs and millin

01.13                                     ODBF logs

01.48                                     Kero tins and tea tree roots

02.13                                     Riding the tractor

02.37                                     Kids growing up and state school

03.07                                     Shopping and meals

04.16                                     Fishing

04.58                                     Day out from school

05.35                                     Cricket

05.56                                     Music

06.17                                     Square baled hay`contracting

07.16                                     Baby daughter Sandy

07.32                                     Dealer in heifers

08.09                                     Charlie’s wife died

08.21                                     Move to Lyrebird