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Born Saturday 26th August 1944 |  |
A tribute to the life of GRAHAM MARTIN.
The only son and second child of
CHARLES JAMES and NANCE
(née Gosney)
and brother of JAN
Graham was born in Cronulla NSW at the Sutherland District Hospital on Saturday 26th
August 1944. he was the second child and much wanted son.
Graham was given his first name in memory of his mother's only brother John, a member of the 2/29th Infantry Battalion
who, aged 26, was killed in Malaya on the 19th January 1942, just before his sister Jan was born.
The family lived at 1 Roker Street until he was just over twelve months old.
After the end of the War in 1945 father, Chas, got a new job in Melbourne. They moved to ...............
......................29 Barnsbury Road, Deepdene,
...........................................................Melbourne (photo 1950)
They lived in Deepdene for fifteen years until 1960. Then, for the first time in their lives, Chas and Nance were in a position to own their own home.
They bought a quarter acre block in Essex Street, Box Hill North, built a home and moved there in 1960.
Throughout his life, Graham suffered many health setbacks but through sheer persistence overcame them with determination and fortitude. He was born with a digestive and reflux problem which his mother Nance monitored and managed with great foresight and patience. Then. as his father had done before him, he suffered a heart attack in his forties. Graham was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus in June 2002 and after a two and a half year battle died quietly in his sleep in the early hours of the morning a year ago, on Friday 7th January 2005 in Box Hill Hospital.
Throughout his life, Graham suffered many health setbacks but through sheer persistence overcame them with determination and fortitude. He was born with a digestive and reflux problem which his mother Nance monitored and managed with great foresight and patience. Then. as his father had done before him, he suffered a heart attack in his forties. Graham was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus in June 2002 and after a two and a half year battle died quietly in his sleep in the early hours of the morning a year ago, on Friday 7th January 2005 in Box Hill Hospital.
 Graham aged 4 months 
Graham, in the middle, with his sister and a friend in Barnsbury Rd. | 
Here he is as a student at Wesley College, where he was also an
enthusiatic member of the Wesley Scout Troop. Graham started his education at Carey Grammar School.. |  Graduating as Fellow of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Instrument Technology in 1969.. |