Eddie Robertson

Um, so a lot of people don't know which part of the world that is, but so, um, the Seelermeyers, um, some of them were, were German Jews.

Um, I'm myself, I'm not

I'm not Jewish, and if I was, I'd tell you.

But they came – yeah, so the Selenmeyers were Prussians, and so that was my grandmother's sort of side of the family, and then there was also the Capuano family, which was pretty big down in Victoria.

They – I think it's an Aussie rules football player that I think played for North Melbourne, Capuano, but –

they shortened their name to CAP, C-A-P-P, because they obviously copped a lot of grief coming over.

But yeah, we, that was my grandmother's side of the family.

And then my mother's father was a, he was an older vet.

He was living in Perth and his father was the minister for mines in Western Australia.

And so he'd,

He was working, my grandfather was working as basically like a mapping and reconnaissance pilot for the Shell, they used to call it the Shell Vacuum Oil Company.

So it was the Shell Oil Company in Western Australia.

And so he'd do a lot of the flight, like they'd fly out and sort of go and oversee their operations and deliver executives around.

And then when the Second World War kicked off,

He basically, because he was a qualified pilot, he was basically recruited directly into the RAAF.

I think he went straight in pretty much as a squadron leader and he flew Catalina flying boats in the Pacific.

And they did medical evacuations.

They dropped ammo off over there.

They did reconnaissance missions.

They dropped shipping mines and stuff like that.