- Tony in Vietnam (2017)
Tony will be remembered by the longer term residents for his time in Udon when he lived for a number of tears at Mono Mansion and in Nong Khai where he lived near Victory Park Golf Club at T19 (some will recall that T19 was a regular haunt for Geordie before his untimely death).
Amongst the places Tony lived while in Thailand was an island in the Mekong!
After many years away from the game Tony took up golf again in Thailand, so much so that he got his wife Tha to take up the game; amongst his other hobbies he was a guitar player who wrote his own comedic songs (there were some recorded in Udon on YouTube) and he had a passion for cooking and loved fine dining.
What many will not know is that Tony, before Thailand and Vietnam, had a rather eclectic working life; his CV included being a policeman, a carpenter and a particularly brilliant engineer.
Tony founded and built up an engineering company that became a major parts supplier for Rolls Royce Aero Engines.
While, in many ways, Tony and I were absolutely poles apart (Tony was an extrovert, I am an introvert), we did have quite a lot in common – one of the oddest was that before we ever met we had the same flying instructor.
I will miss him greatly.
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