Day Fifteen

On January 18, 1934,  John Leslie Fitzmaurice Creighton, fleeing a painful divorce in London,  arrived in Sydney, Australia,  on board the SS Ormonde, disembarking at Circular Quay.    In his immigration papers he described his profession simply as "Gentleman."

He rented a flat in "Manar" on Macleay Street, Kings Cross and commenced a new life as a writer and  popular radio personality on Sydney stations 2GB, 2BL, 2FC and 2CH in those golden days of radio.

He told the tales of his time as a pilot in the First World War and of his travels into the  last  brutal days of the Russian Revolution, of pioneering the London to Cairo Aerial Route Number 1 and of his deep friendship with Michael Coombs after whom he named me so many years later.