Gerald Gunton
| Town/City | Banora Point, NSW |
|---|---|
| First name | Gerald |
| Last name | Gunton |
| Country of Origin | England |
| Date of Birth | 5/3/1932 |
| Year of Arrival in Australia | 1936 |
| Submitted by | Gerald Gunton |
Story
Reason for leaving homeland – Parents followed father’s parents who migrated to Australia in the 20s. My father was in the Royal Navy and transferred to the Royal Australian Navy in 1936.
My mother, Elizabeth Anne Gunton, and I travelled to Australia in the SS Moreton Bay, arriving in Sydney in July 1936. My father, William Joseph Henry Gunton, came to Australia in a ship of the RAN. The trip took six weeks.
Impressions on Arrival – My imressions of Australia are rather vague.. I was four. My mother and I lived with my father’s parents in Ashfield, Sydney where my grandfather was the caretaker of the (now gone) Ashfield town hall.
We later moved to a rented house across the road (Central Road – also now gone – the whole road that is). I started school in Ashfield until we moved when my father bought a house in West Ryde. I saw little of my father during my school years because he spent most of World War II at sea.