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Man who was posted home from Australia is looking for the Irish men who helped him
Irish Mirror 1 day ago irishmirror.ie
Brian Robson was 19-years-old when he became homesick while working for Victorian Railways in 1965.
Realising that a plane ticket home would cost him £700 - 17 times his monthly salary - he devised a plan to get himself home. The now 75-year-old bought a small wooden crate and convinced two Irishmen he knew as Paul and John to stow him aboard a freight plane, he told the Irish Times.
The quite horrific experience” took four days and during the commute, Brian was repeatedly stored upside down.
Brit who was posted home from Australia wants to find the men who nailed crate shut
Brian Robson was a 19-year-old and working for Victorian Railways when he got homesick and decided to ask two Irishmen to put him in a crate and post him back to the UK
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The Welshman so homesick he posted himself back from Australia in a crate
Brian Robson is now trying to track down the two men who helped him undertake his incredible voyage home
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Brian Robson at age 19 and now
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