The story of UK child migrants has been the subject of a parliamentary inquiry in Britain, and the Christian Brothers apologised to West Australian victims in the 1990s and reached an out-of-court settlement with some of them.
Mr Johnston spent more than six years at Castledare and later Clontarf, where he was stripped of his identity and suffered ongoing abuse.
At 15, Mr Johnston was considered too old for school and was sent to work on a farm where he lived in a shed with no windows and little pay.
Ms O'Reilly Johnston said she had felt compelled for some years to write Norman's story.
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Weeks before the book went to print, Kathleen checked again that Norman was OK with publishing, about the sexual abuse.
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It has taken seven decades for Norman "Johno" Johnston to trust someone with the full story of the abuse he endured as a child migrant from the United Kingdom.
His biography titled Johno has been painstakingly recorded, cross-referenced and written by his former wife, Kathleen O'Reilly Johnston, and released during Child Protection Week.
When he was seven, Mr Johnston was one of thousands of children sent from an orphanage after World War II to help rebuild Australia with "good British stock".
The story of UK child migrants has been the subject of a parliamentary inquiry in Britain, and the Christian Brothers apologised to West Australian victims in the 1990s and reached an out-of-court settlement with some of them.
WA hearings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Sexual Abuse focused on four institutions run by the Christian Brothers, including St Vincent's Orphanage Clontarf in Perth and Castledare Junior Orphanage in Wilson.
Mr Johnston spent more than six years at Castledare and later Clontarf, where he was stripped of his identity and suffered ongoing abuse.
"There was seldom a reasonable reason for half of the pain that was meted out."
At 15, Mr Johnston was considered too old for school and was sent to work on a farm where he lived in a shed with no windows and little pay.
Mr Johnston joined the army and served in Vietnam before meeting Kathleen O'Reilly in the 1960s.
Ms O'Reilly Johnston said she had felt compelled for some years to write Norman's story.
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