The Further Adventures of Ern McQuillan OAM

We continue the Ern story as promised. Imagine you were the one wanting to be a press photographer in the early 1940s. This seems a good place to resume the story. You see, the Second World War had started for us school kids when Ern made his debut in the press photographer business… In the Thirties, Forties andContinue reading “The Further Adventures of Ern McQuillan OAM”

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST McQUILLAN

Fate plays strange tricks on ordinary people sometimes. It did with me when I first met Ernest Mervyn McQuillan. That was about two years ago. I was the ordinary person. Ern was, among other remarkable things, the trick that Fate played on me.   The meeting arranged by my friend Les Johns did the trick.Continue reading “THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST McQUILLAN”