Eddie Robertson

So it wasn't half pipe or anything, it was alpine snowboarding.

So like GS, Slalom.

They don't really do it anymore.

And I also went to the world championships, like the FIS, like Federation International to Ski World Championships in Corneille Scala in Italy.

So I did that when I finished school and I was at a crossroads whether or not I could look at going professional.

The Olympic Games was coming up in Nagano in Japan.

And the main sort of Australian snowboarder at the time was a guy called Zeke Stegall and his sister Izali Stegall, who represented in the moguls.

And she

He became a teal politician and took Tony Abbott's seat.

But yeah, Zeke was kind of, he was a few years older than me and they come from quite a wealthy family and there's no money in Australian snow sports.

You can only compete if you come from a family with money.

Of course, yeah.

So, yeah, so I joined the Army.

Yeah, yeah.

So that's – so to break it down, my – so we have a family lineage that goes back to the First World War.

We don't have anyone that was involved in the Boer War, but the First World War –

My grandmother's uncle, Harold Seelermeyer, was a veterinary officer and he was killed by artillery fire alongside his horse.

He was an equine vet and he was killed in the trenches by artillery or shrapnel fire.

Um, and so the Seelermeyer family were Prussians.

They came from Prussia.