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Boulder Primary School

Clifford Booth1956

Eastern Goldfields Senior High School

Clifford Booth1963

University of Western Australia Studying Engineering. Initially lived at Kingswood College at the university, but later moved in with Ian Campbell in Marmion Street, Cottesloe.

Clifford Booth1 Feb 1968

Mum died after a long battle with cancer. This was a seminal moment in my life. For the first time I really thought about the meaning of life and decided what I was doing was not making me happy. So I quit university and headed out on a new path, at the time unknown.

Clifford Booth22 May 1969

7 Jul 1969Kalgoorlie - Boulder, WA, Australia

Clifford Booth Started work at International Nickel Australia Ltd. International Nickel was a Canadian company so this was my first exposure to Canada as most of the bosses and many of the workers were Canadian. This job took me all over Western Australia and to many isolated outback places I would never have seen, but for it.

18 Mar 1970Kalgoorlie - Boulder, WA, Australia

Clifford Booth Notified of indefinite deferment for national service for the Vietnam war

25 Jan 1972Kalgoorlie - Boulder, WA, Australia

Clifford Booth By this time the WA nickel boom was dying down and the writing was on the wall so I resigned from International Nickel Australia Ltd and moved to Darwin

27 Apr 1972Darwin, NT, Australia

Clifford Booth Started work at Commonwealth Railways as a storeman in Darwin

I met Stephanie Brown at the Waratah Club and we had a loving relationship for about a year. We tried the long distance relationship after I moved to Port Augusta, but we were both young and it was much harder in those days. Like all good things in my life, from time to time, I still remember Stephanie with great fondness.

Clifford Booth1 May 1972

8 Sep 1972Port Augusta, SA, Australia

Clifford Booth Secured a job as Assistant Programmer at Commonwealth Railways in Port Augusta. The start of my IT career.

I met Andrea through Maurice and Lynne Hughes and we started a relationship. I worked with Maurice at the IT department of Commonwealth Railways. Andrea moved to Port Augusta and we rented a flat before eventually moving to Melbourne.

Clifford Booth1 Jun 1973

22 May 1974Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Clifford Booth Resigned from Commonwealth Railways and accepted a job with TAA in Melbourne. This was the beginning of a long period of time working in the airline industry.

10 Jun 1976Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Clifford Booth 1976 First Australian Passport photo

Married Andrea. It was a small ceremony in the registry office. Those in attendance were Andrea's parents, (Jack and Enid Lund), Andrea's sister (Vivian) and Andrea's brother (Robert)

Clifford Booth5 Jul 1976