Harmel’s great uncle Pooran Singh was an Indian from Punjab who migrated to Australia as a 30-year-old in 1899 to earn money for his extended family in India. Pooran worked as a hawker around the Warrnambool area and died 48 years later in 1947. Throughout his working life in Australia he repatriated money to his family in Punjab and upon his death he left 1500 pounds in equal shares to his four nephews as he was never married and had no children of his own. The family used the money to build a house and placed a plaque upon the house bearing Pooran Singh’s name. In 2010 Harmel Uppal travelled from his home in the UK to Australia to collect his great uncle’s ashes and repatriate them to India after he was made aware of their existence and the fact that they had remained uncollected since Pooran’s death in Australia 63 years earlier.