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The 70th birthday party of Gavin Angus Rodie held at the Walawwe (The Bungalow) Restaurant and Bar, Noble Park,\u00a0on 10 February was\u00a0a\u00a0specially memorable night\u00a0because not often\u00a0does one get to celebrate the milestone birthday of a son of Sri Lanka, born in British Ceylon, who\u00a0served\u00a0under the flag of his country of adoption, Australia, in a foreign land (Vietnam).\u00a0Guests included\u00a0family,\u00a0\u00a0friends from his youth and a contingent of his former Army comrades from Perth, Adelaide and Queensland, all drafted into national service in 1968 and all turning 70 this\u00a0year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Party entertainment included music by Elmo Wells-Jansz, guest singers Everard Hoffman and Reg Bartholomeusz, Trinity College song, Waltzing Matilda nationalist ballad and Army singalong, Rugby ditties by Bumpy Jayasekera and Reg, and\u00a0speeches\u00a0by\u00a0Everard Schoorman, Glen Vanlangenberg, Peter Valchou and Keith Molyneux.\u00a0In his response speech, Gavin thanked everyone for the memories!<\/span><\/p>\n

Gavin was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on 11 February 1948, the middle child of\u00a0parents John and Primrose (nee Krasse) Rodie, with an older brother John and younger sister Alison.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gavin started his schooling at Methodist Ladies’ College, along with a number of other male toddlers, when it was quite the norm in Ceylon for male toddlers to go to girls’ schools until Year 4.\u00a0 He\u00a0moved to a boys’ primary school, St Thomas’ Preparatory, then St Thomas’ College, Mt Lavinia, and finally Trinity College, Kandy, where he was boarded in a school master’s home.\u00a0Gavin took part in\u00a0rugby, cricket and athletics for his senior school.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gavin was a 17-year-old teenager when he migrated to Australia in 1965, settling\u00a0in WA and calling\u00a0it home until he turned 67. He started his first job as a banker with National Australia Bank where he rapidly escalated within the\u00a0ranks to manager.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Competing with his employment escalation was his social\u00a0popularity and no wonder, with one of his Army mates describing him as \u00a0“a debonair bloke, always the best smelling, best dressed amongst us.\u00a0He always wore a cravat, smoked gold pack Benson & Hedges and had that look of sophistication with those large, black-rimmed glasses. A polished sportsman (he played rugby for the Australian Army XV), and socially, in an era of no political correctness, Gavin was always the winner at pulling a sheila”.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1968, at the age of 20, just as his banking and social careers were reaching dizzy heights, \u00a0a marble with Gavin\u2019s date of birth was drawn by the ‘powers that were’ and, as a British subject, he was drafted into the Australian Army as a National Serviceman to support Australia\u2019s SEATO commitment to Vietnam. He commenced recruit training at Puckapunyul\u00a0and in January 1969 was posted to 7 Battalion at Holsworthy, NSW.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the Army, Gavin’s military leadership potential surfaced and he was chosen as a member of the jungle training team responsible for putting his\u00a0Battalion through the jungle course at Canungra in QLD.\u00a0While in\u00a0Vietnam, Gavin was also chosen\u00a0to lead a\u00a0cadre of South Vietnamese soldiers and was a section commander in 5 Platoon on many field operations.<\/span><\/p>\n

In October 1970, Gavin returned to Australia\u00a0and Perth and\u00a0rejoined the National Australia Bank, but not for long. Boredom set in and Gavin left to explore Europe for a while. On his return, Gavin threw his hand into selling real estate, setting up his own agency, Rodie Realty, which gained prominence in Perth’s northern suburbs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You could say Gavin’s life\u00a0in Perth, post-Vietnam, was a\u00a0full hand\u00a0– he had landed a Royal Flush in the game of cards – jobs, parties, holidays, businesses –\u00a0he even found time for romance –\u00a0and in 1989\u00a0Gavin’s full life was made even fuller when wife Wendy presented him with a beautiful daughter, Hillary.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Then Gavin turned 40 – the age of reason –\u00a0and allowed himself to indulge in a pet distraction –\u00a0a 1500 cc custom Harley Davidson motorbike,\u00a0which he lovingly decorated with every fancy accessory, and\u00a0formed\u00a0a Bikers’ Club –\u00a0the reason given;\u00a0so he and his mates had a forum where they could be “free”.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2005 Gavin changed his single status to matrimony again when he married\u00a0Russian-born Marina. Then, in 2015, Gavin acted on his strong belief that the greatest gift we have is a helping hand, and responded\u00a0to a family crisis, moving\u00a0permanently to Melbourne to take on the role of caring for his ailing mother, which he does to this day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At 70, Gavin has lost nothing of his charm, gentlemanly ways and dress sense, standing out in a crowd.\u00a0\u00a0He can be seen around Melbourne\u00a0helping out his ‘senior’\u00a0friends\u00a0when braun and muscle are\u00a0required, a trend that has continued from his youth when school mates turned to him as\u00a0‘protector’\u00a0when needing\u00a0to be rescued in\u00a0schoolyard spats. Gavin has resumed his role of social aficionado, enjoying organising reunions\u00a0with Sri Lankan friends of his youth and they happy to have their stalwart friend back in their lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Gavin is determined that his birthday celebrations will continue with plans to be part of the\u00a0celebrations\u00a0of\u00a0his Army mates\u00a0also turning 70 this year. No doubt he is looking forward to being among\u00a0some of his dearest friends and partying like old times because he has been instrumental in organising a Battalion Reunion Cruise which will take place in March.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Gavin is\u00a0a helluva kind, extremely thoughtful,\u00a0generous guy, a loyal and true friend,” says his Army mate,\u00a0Peter, and so say all of us. Happy 70th birthday Gavin and enjoy the ride through the decade.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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