For those that were in better health the government found easy jobs like Commissionaires, cleaners of "Wagon Lits" for the state transport catering service run by a privateer called "Peeters"who the had the tender forever!
Most of the time, I continued to persevere, always remembering the motto I had adopted, from the S.A.S., "Who Dares Wins".
Daniel and George just gave up on claiming their rights through government organizations : it had all been too much and it was all over for them.
I still wanted to lead an adventurous life and was thinking that with our money from the government we could venture out independently as entrepreneurs! At a reasonable rate, we could obtain an army truck which we could then convert and use as a refrigerated fish truck for transporting fish to inland sites. We could even get a three man trawler, the speediest in the harbor, which when permitted to do so would be ideal for trawling using two booms.
I mentioned the speediest in the small fishing fleet because during the war these small trawlers had been equipped with Skoda motors. These motors were so powerful that insurance companies would not consider insuring them until, later on, when the laws had
been changed to allow fishing with two trawler nets on each side.
Daniel and George let it all go for the funfare with the girls - to whoop it up on their meager subsistence level. After his demobilization, Barbaix, eventually became involved with the stock exchange and never got out of it, except for his general hobbies in electricity and who knows what!!!
I don't know how far all that carried him but it looks as if he led a life of leisure for the rest of his life. He got married and settled; finding it too much trouble to get his car out of the garage to meet a friend from long ago................
Daniel started his career from jail contacts, this was after he had been imprisoned for emptying a couple of Army and Navy stores as an inside job, helped by and used by a British storekeeper
To be continued....
Most of the time, I continued to persevere, always remembering the motto I had adopted, from the S.A.S., "Who Dares Wins".
Daniel and George just gave up on claiming their rights through government organizations : it had all been too much and it was all over for them.
I still wanted to lead an adventurous life and was thinking that with our money from the government we could venture out independently as entrepreneurs! At a reasonable rate, we could obtain an army truck which we could then convert and use as a refrigerated fish truck for transporting fish to inland sites. We could even get a three man trawler, the speediest in the harbor, which when permitted to do so would be ideal for trawling using two booms.
I mentioned the speediest in the small fishing fleet because during the war these small trawlers had been equipped with Skoda motors. These motors were so powerful that insurance companies would not consider insuring them until, later on, when the laws had
been changed to allow fishing with two trawler nets on each side.
Daniel and George let it all go for the funfare with the girls - to whoop it up on their meager subsistence level. After his demobilization, Barbaix, eventually became involved with the stock exchange and never got out of it, except for his general hobbies in electricity and who knows what!!!
I don't know how far all that carried him but it looks as if he led a life of leisure for the rest of his life. He got married and settled; finding it too much trouble to get his car out of the garage to meet a friend from long ago................
Daniel started his career from jail contacts, this was after he had been imprisoned for emptying a couple of Army and Navy stores as an inside job, helped by and used by a British storekeeper
To be continued....
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