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JOHN MOORE 1949 - 2019

When I first met John in 1958 his dad worked for GMH and helped design the original Holden. Cecil died from a heart attack when John was 14. We were playing cricket when his mum came out with two steaming mugs of hot chocolate to give him the news.

We went to Oak Park High School, which in 1960 was a division of the . John was my Jennifer Lawrence. At lunch time 200 boys faced off, kick-to-kick over a single football. More often than not, you could watch John climb the

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