It is the heat of a stinking Canberra summer, and his first case of bad sunburn, that stick in Andrew Grant's mind.
The then five-year-old had just made the five-week journey from England to Australia on board the Arcadia, as a 10-pound Pom, after his father Ron uprooted their life in cold, wet Northampton for warmer climes south of the equator.
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