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Paul Couvret
Paul Couvret OAM, JP (5 June 19225 July 2013) was a Dutch–born Australian military veteran, New South Wales schoolteacher and local Councillor. He was a councillor on Warringah Council from 1973 to 1995 and was previously Shire President from 1979–1983.
==Early life and background==
Couvret was born in 1922 in the Netherlands, but soon moved with his parents to settle in the Dutch East Indies, where he grew up. When World War Two came to the Netherlands in 1940, Couvret signed up to the Royal Netherlands Navy but by the time the East Indies were invaded by the Empire of Japan, he was taken prisoner during service in the Indian Ocean on 8 March 1942, aged 20. He was subsequently transported to Nagasaki in October 1942, where he spent the rest of the war. On 9 August 1945, Couvret was working in the a sunken dock in Nagasaki harbour when an atom bomb exploded six kilometres away. He dived under the ship he had been working on and was thus protected from the explosion.
Upon being liberated, Couvret returned to service with the Dutch Navy, this time as a pilot in the Netherlands Naval Aviation Service.〔 His father had died in a Japanese prison in Bandoeng and his mother had died of starvation in a nearby women's camp. Therefore, at the end of 1945 he came to Australia for six months to assist with the evacuation of prisoners of war from the East. Couvret was eventually demobilised in July 1947 and then repatriated to Holland. However, he decided to return to Australia, arriving in Sydney on the SS Volendam in January 1949, aged 27.
Couvret eventually settled in the rural town of Cowra, New South Wales, becoming a Primary School teacher at the Cowra Migrant Centre, where he met his wife, Hilja, an Estonian migrant.〔 Here, he eventually acquired Australian naturalisation in 1951, which enabled him to gain employment with the NSW Department of Education. His first position was teaching physical education at Cowra High School, where he remained for ten years, and then as Special Master at Lithgow High School. Eventually he took the position of Special Master at Balgowlah Boys High School, which enabled him to move back to Sydney and settle in the Forest district of the North Shore. His last position as a teacher was his role as Deputy Principal of the NSW Correspondence School.〔 He strongly involved in his local community, joining the Apex club, Frenchs Forest Rotary and was a founding member of Belrose Rotary Club.〔
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