Six O'Clock Diamond

The story of a desert harasser

About the author, Gus Officer—a Desert Harasser

George John 'Gus' Officer was born in Warrnambool on 2nd September 1920. After his father died when he was fourteen, he left school and got a job with the Bank of Australasia.

When war broke out in 1939, he volunteered for the Air Force and was posted to the Middle East, taking part in the Alamein campaign against Rommel and his Afrika Korps in 1942.

After the war he became an accountant, setting up his own practice in Horsham in 1952. He died in Melbourne on his eighty-sixth birthday.