Category Archives: Memories

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE AUSTRALIAN KIDS WHO WERE BORN BEFORE 1970. YOU ARE A SURVIVOR! First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and who lived in houses without insulation, central heating or … Continue reading →

  On Saturday, July 19th, we attended a very moving ceremony at the Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance where a copy of the famous statue of ‘Cobbers’ by the sculptor Peter Corliss was unveiled by the Premier of Victoria and the … Continue reading →

As I’m thinking about our forthcoming trip to Europe on Tuesday where we will visit, amongst other places, famous Australian historical sites of the Somme and Gallipoli, my thoughts turn to the experience of my family at war. I recently … Continue reading →

I was conscripted into the Australian Army when I was twenty and served in Vietnam from 1969 – 1970 as a National Serviceman. Apart from my marriage with my lovely wife Jill and raising our two great kids, David & Cathy, … Continue reading →

Like most other Australian Vietnam Veterans, it took me many years to feel comfortable in talking about my experience in Vietnam until the 1987 ‘Welcome Home Weekend’ in Sydney. For 17 years I, like most other veterans, kept a low … Continue reading →

Over the weekend of October 21 & 22 2207, (and along with a few other Vietnam Veterans) I attended a two day celebration of my old army unit as it began to close down its operations at Moorebank NSW and … Continue reading →

Yesterday was a free day at our reunion and Jill and I rented a car and drove up to the little towns of Melany and Montville inland from the Sunshine Coast. We left Brisbane by 8.30 and were in Melany … Continue reading →

We started our reunion last night with a ‘Meet and Greet’ function at the Rydges Hotel at Brisbane’s Southbank. We had about 190 people attending and they represented all the years of the unit’s service in Vietram between 1967 and … Continue reading →

Colonel Sanders Jill & I met Colonel Harland Sanders (yes, the real Colonel) at the time when I was working for Kentucky Fried Chicken as a Personnel Manager in 1976. This picture was taken at a company dinner at the … Continue reading →