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An insight into the life of Australian artist, Bill Pidgeon (Wep) 1909 – 1981
Posted on April 30, 2013 by Pidgeoncoop
The crowd of pilots fly Beaufighters, a twin engined job used for strafing the nips on islands 300 to 400 miles from here. They are somewhat older than the Spitfire boys but are all in early twenties.
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Posted on July 5, 2011 by Pidgeoncoop
While I was fumbling for a match – the drummer leaped down with a lighter. I must have been obviously interested because the pianist beamed at me. The violinist seems inexhaustible. When at last they finished I gave them the last but 2 of my long Chesterfield cigarettes – there was one each for the 7 of them. They liked that (because these European cigarettes are bloody awful.)
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Posted on January 30, 2011 by Pidgeoncoop
Anyway I’ve had the dutiful tramping around, being the best poor quarter finder in the world. I don’t know how it is but as soon as I start walking I finish up in the poorest area. How is this?
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Posted on January 29, 2011 by Pidgeoncoop
Mon 24-Sep-56: Took off 8:30am through Bangkok, Calcutta and Karachi, flew all day & night, arrived Cairo 3:55am. Tue 25-Sep-56: Landed Rome 10am. Found suitcase had been left at Karachi. After lot of bother settled in Splendor Hotel. Cashed £10 Wed 26-Sep-56: Walked miles saw Vatican & Coloseum [Roma, Italy, Splendor Hotel via Luigi Luzzatti [...]
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Posted on February 18, 2010 by Pidgeoncoop
W.E. Pidgeon, C/O DPR Unit, Army Post Office, Darwin Wednesday Dear Jess, Been quite an exhausting day. Plenty hot and plenty weak. However I pulled my gizzard up & got stuck into the work of drawing some fighter planes. They’re sleek jobs and surprisingly small. You don’t get much idea of their performance when seen [...]
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Posted on February 18, 2010 by Pidgeoncoop
W.E.Pidgeon, C/O DPR Unit, Army Post Office, Darwin Monday Aug. 1 or something Darling, Sorry I growled about there being no letters from you. Very little mail arrived for anyone last week. Must have been some hitch. Happily I received two this morning and was thereby much delighted. You seem pretty lonely poor darling – [...]
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Posted on January 25, 2010 by Pidgeoncoop
Monday 9th Aug. Got a letter from Geoff, I mean, Mickey Blunden yesterday. Seem to be enjoying themselves. Hope none of the wicked Frenchmen grabbed a bit of Mickie’s buttocks. South of France – I too would like to see it, the country of Van Gogh & Cézanne. Be interesting to see the actual [...]
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Posted on January 25, 2010 by Pidgeoncoop
7th August Sat. Finally rooted after vain seekings for roadside spot further up the road. Laid our foundations cunningly close to tiny local school with water tank attached and windmill well across the road. In desperate plights for water. The creek having dried up in consequence of 7 months drought here. Did blessedly rain on [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on January 25, 2010 by Pidgeoncoop
5th August Thursday Ginghi, Bylong Valley. Thank God for a quiet life. A welcome relief after tiresome, tensed up driving. Seem to have a positive genius for picking lonely unfrequented roads. A lonely plugging uninteresting trip from Wauchope up the Oxley highway. Miles and miles of intolerable hill and forest. A worrying run beset with [...]
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Posted on January 24, 2010 by Pidgeoncoop
23rd July Friday Still at Skyring, but all ready for marching orders. Have been detained here a week now waiting on news from home. From civilization – which strange to say appears to be getting along quite well without us. Wrote down to Sydney on Monday, begging for information as to amount earned for past [...]
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