The Third Movement

Gerald Buttrose was born in 1923 in the Perth suburb of Nedlands, Western Australia and grew up, with six siblings, in the seaside village of Henley Beach in South Australia. He served with the Australian Army in New Guinea during World War II before spending the next forty years as a business man in the City of Sydney. He is married with four children and for the length of his business life lived in the suburb of St.Ives. He and his wife, Colleen, now reside in Ballina on the north-east coast of New South Wales, Australia.