| I remember dad saying he sent some "trinkets" home for mum (my brothers and I weren't born). He was "blown up" taking Tobruk January 21st 1941. None of his uniform remained. It was either blown off or cut off at the hospital.
Mum's "trinkets" never did arrive.
I have a couple of photos of him in El Kantara hospital in Egypt, his military records and his medals. He was shipped back to Australia on a hospital ship as soon as he could travel and spent quite a time in Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital.
Him being alive possibly constituted the greatest memory.
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------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html
"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."
(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)
What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site:
http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |