Johnny Bray was always content with his lot. Photo / Supplied
Johnny Bray was always content with his lot. Photo / Supplied
He was an ordinary man who did extraordinary things, says Joan MacIntyre of her father, Ernest John Bray (Johnny), who has died, aged 102.
A Second World War veteran, he was sent to Fiji forfour months to acclimatise and later was sent to New Caledonia where he spent two years.
An injury while playing rugby kept him on light duties, Joan says. That meant kitchen duty - peeling potatoes or doing dishes.
'Johnny', who died on October 21, didn't talk much about the war when she was growing up, but she did manage to get a few things about his time in New Caledonia and put them in a book.