Bob Mead was a member of the Rucksack club in the fifties, sixties and seventies, who joined the Search and Rescue Team maintained by the Federation of Bushwalking Clubs of NSW and ACT (now Bushwalking NSW). He operated the communications base radio for many years, coordinating the efforts of the search teams. Bob and his wife Ruth moved to a North Coast retirement village in 1979, where he died in 1999.
For more information on Bob Mead see his obituary in the August 2002 edition of The Bushwalker https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13jl1BBxWLAv68-HhQILjoAw3WiTlBMhm