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My Father also didn't talk much of the war either ,but some stories he did stick in my head .One night a century went missing ,next day they were ordered to Storm a Jap camp and were successful ,only to find the missing century 's limb's in an barrel with his dog tags hanging on them .If i only know what i know now ,the other stories ,were very true ,and i have more too long to post. 2/27th choclate and blue lance corporal Ross Smith.Passed 2016 Age 95. R.I.P. Pop.
Both my grandfathers joined the Papuan Infantry Battlion. They were part of the Battle of Milne Bay in 42. They both helped the Australian soldiers. 😊🇵🇬👍 Commenting from Alotau Milne Bay Province.
My uncle served in the 39 th battalion in the advanced unit and was a Bren gun operator he never spoke much about what happened there his name was Charlie miller
Trained by the Australians, the Papuan Infantry Battalion and the New Guinea Infantry Battalion fought bravely alongside the Australians. Not forgetting the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angles. Mipla stap tu!!!
My grandfather fought across the track to Gona with the 2/25 battalion, I once mentioned an incident where some Japanese prisoners were bayoneted and he looked into the distance and said “yes mick, a lot of things happened up there but you just don’t talk about it”. RIP Dennis Heron D company 2/25th Battalion.
This wonderful recollection of Australian Rugby should be re-edited to remove Alan Jones. His behaviour in schools, Rugby and other sports,places where he has worked and communities where he has lived does not warrant him being associated with those wonderful men who wore the Wallaby jersey.
my father and uncle were both on the railway they were sick for the remainder of their lives. I was a pain in the neck for my father something that haunts me to this day and i am 70 he died when he was 67. I was so immature it was only when it was too late did i realize what he went through. Life has been full of regrets.
@@bradleygordon6806 Hello Brad here is one thing that I have found difficult to reconcile having been a teenager in the 60s. Both my father and uncle were both sent to the far east to kill people. My father was a lieutenant and uncle a colonel. They were obviously considered by the powers to be , to be intelligent killers , intelligent enough to lead other killers. Of course the Japanese also sent their killers to the singapore and in that instance their killers prevailed against the killers sent by the UK. I always had my father on a pedestal but it was literally in the last few months that I came to the realization of the reality. We can all argue about just wars but for me I cannot really conceive of any situation where i would consider killing another. sure when someone cuts me up while driving I like the idea of shooting that person, but thats as far as it goes. I used to carry my fathers ghost around with me every remembrance day and as i live in london would go to whitehall often. I remember seeing the guy Johnson who i think is the most recent recipient of the VC there one year and thought to myself how deeply unhappy he seemed and you could see that he had people with him who were his pr "handlers" .
MY FATHER WW2 ROYAL ENGINEER NORMAN THOMAS JELBART OBE USED TO DRINK BEER WITH FIELDMARSHAL TOM BLAMEY SON BY THE SAME NAME ON ARMASTICE DAY WW1 CEASFIRE 11 NOVEMBER UP UNTIL MY MOTHER ARGUED WITH FIELD MARSHAL TOM BLAMEY SON ABOUT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ISRAEL IN PALESTINE WHICH REVERSED MY MOTHERS WW1 FATHER ANZAC WW1 LIGHTHORSE BRIGADESMAN LINDSAY BILSON FROM COLAC VICTORY OVER OTTOMAN TURK FACIST FORCES OF BAVARIAN ILLUMIANTI OF THE GERMAN KIESAR AT BERSHEEBA PALESTINE EARLY 1917. THIS VICTORY WAS IMMEDIATLY REVERSED BY UK LORD BALFOUR DECLARATION TO LORD ROTHSCHILDS BANKING CARTELS NOVEMBER 1917 SIMILARLY IN WW2 ALTHOUGH FIELDMARSHAL TOM BLAMEY ABANDONED SUPPORT FOR ANZACS ON KOKODA TRAIL THESE ANZACS DUG IN ANYWAY AND DISOBEYING ORDERS FROM ABOVE FROM TRAITORS LIKE FIELDMARSHAL TOM BLAMEY THESE ANZACS DUG IN AND SUCCESFULLY FOUGHT OF THE JAPANESE ADVANCE ON KOKODA TRAIL WITH THE HELP OF LOCAL INDIGENOUS NATIVE PAPUA NEW GUINEA AND IRAN JAYA INDONESIAN WEST NEW GUINEA TRIBES SO AFTER THE PRESUMED ASSASINATION OF PM HOLT TO FORCE PINE GAP EXMOUTH HAARP CLOUD SEEDING GEO ENGINEERED WEATHER WARS MY FAMILY NEVER DRANK WITH THE TOM BLAMEY JNR FAMILY OF ROTHSCHILDS BANKING CARTELS AGENTS AGAIN IN FACT I SUSPECT MY FATHER WAS GIVEN PREMATURE DEMENTURE BY FLUE VACCINES DOCTORS ADVISED AND DAD HAD DEMENTURE BY 1975 DAD ALSO DRANK TOO MUCH ALCHOHOL IN POST WW2 YEARS WHICH DUE TO THE SUGARS IN ALCHOHOL MAY HAVE ALSO CONTRIBUTED TO MY DADS PREMATUE DEMENTURE SO I BELIEVE CANNABIS MAY HELP STAVE OFF DEMENTURE IF IT MODERATES EXCESSIVE ALCHOHOL USE AS DEMENTURE IS NOW SEEN TO BE A TYPE OF DIABETESE. IF AUSTRALIANS WANT TO STOP THEMSELVES AND THIER CHILDREN BEIING MADE HOMELESS THEMSELVES DUE TO NO OR LOW PAID JOBS BEING UNABLE TO ACCESS THE HOUSEING INDUSTRY THE FACT EXCESSIVE IMMAGRATION PUSHES UP THE PRICE OF HOUSING ALSO IF STOPPED WILL COST AUSTRALIAN TRADES PEOPLES AND THEIR SUPPLIERS JOBS SO TO HALT EXCESSIVE IMMAGRATION AUSTRALIA WILL NEED TO ENCOURAGE HEMP TEXTILE AND LEGAL MEDICAL AND RECREATIONAL CANNABIS INDUSTRY TO GET GST TO BUILD A NAVY WITHOUT AUKUS NUCLEAR ZIONISTS SUBMARINES WITH INDONESIA AND BRITISH RAJ MALAYA AND THAILANDS HINDU BUDHISTS BY ALLOWING REGISTERED ADULT USERS OF CANNABIS TO DRIVE WHILE THEY HAVE CANNABIS IN THEIR SYSTEM WHICH DOES NOT AFFECT CANABIS USERS ABILITY TO DRIVE ADVERSLY BECAUSE UNLIKE ALCHOHOL CANABIS DOES NOT AFFECT ONES BALENCE AND HAS A RELATIVELY SMALL IMPACT COMPARED TO ALCHOHOL ON FRONTAL LOBE IMPULSE CONTROL. KAY GRIGGS 'SATANISM IN USA MILITARY" AND AUSTRALIAN "FIONA TALKS" MCMURRAY REPORT DOCUMENTS THIS PEDOPHILIA IS LITHUANIAN STARLINIST USTAZI NAZI FROM WW2 IMPLEMENTING PEDOPHILIC BLACKMIALING RINGS OF AUSTRALIANS 3 BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT MAJOR CORPORATIONS AND RELIGIONS AS DID THE NOW DISAPEARED BRENDON OCONNELL A VICTUM OF ISRAELI ROTHSCHILDS ZIONIST CENSORSHIP ON RU-vid WHO EXPOSED IGA SUPERMARKETS FRAUDULENTLY RELABLE ORANGES GROWN IN ISRAEL AS AUSTRALIAN GROWN WHICH IS A BIO WEAPONS HAZARD POSSIBLY RELATED TO DRUG SMUGGLIING ALSO BY ISRAELI ROTHSCHILDS ZIONIST SATANIC DEEP STATE SUCH AS CLINTON KABAAL OF MENA AIRPORT ARKENSAW , AIR AMERICA DRUG SMUGGLING FROM GOLDEN TRIANGLE DURING VIETNAM WAR FOR CIA DEEP STATE AGENTS AND BARRY SEAL MOVIE ON NETFLIX GOES INTO THE FACT THE GOVERMENT WHICH IS A MAFIA RUN BY ISRAELI ROTHSCHILDS ZIONIST BAVARIAN ILLUMINATI IS ALL EPSTIEN MAXWELL PEDOPHILIE MOSSAD MI6 ASIO AND AUSTRALIAN CSRIO GOVERMENT SCIENCE RESEARCH PROJECTS THAT DETONATED ATOMIC BOMBS AT MARALINGA CENTRAL AUSTRALIA OBSERVING THE EFFECTS ON ABORIGINEE WANDERING THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH. AND CHRISTIAN ZIONIST AUSTRLIAN PRIME MINISTER SCOTT MORISON LEASED OUT DARWIN HARBOUR TO CCP CORPORATION LANDBRIDGE FOR 99 YEARS WHICH PROVES CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS ARE ENGAGED IN TREASON. MEDIA BARON ROBERT MAXWELL AND GHISLAN MAXWELL WORKED FOR MOSSAD ISRAELI ROTHSCHILDS ZIONIST INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES CIA AUSTRALIAN ASIO, UK MI6 AND CANADIAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES "THE FIVE EYES" OF THE WORLD ARE SATANIC AND THIS IS A POST WW2 BREAKAWAY CIVILIZATION NAZI INSURGENCY OF THE ROTHSCHLDS BAVARIAN ILLUMINATI JESUIT BLACK NOBILITY WHO MOVED NORTH FROM VENICE INTO EUROPEAN NATIONS DURING CRUSADES BUT THESE ARE IN FACT RITUALS OF BABYLONIAN BANKERS HEBREW PHONETIAN VENETIAN KABALAAH AND SLAVERS ETHICS USING BANKING CARTELS SUPPORTED BY ROTHSCHILDS ZIONIST ISRAELI POST WW2 NAZI RACIST BELIEF SYSTEMS. SO AN ARYA BEING FROM AN AUSTRONESIAN INDO PACIFIC CAUCASIANS POINT OF VIEW IS A PERSON WHO REALIZES, ANATA /SHUNYATA =NOT SELF, THE LACK OF A PERMANENT UNCAUSED SELF SOUL ATMAN CREATOR GODS ESSENCE OR NOMINAL BASIS OF DESIGNATION AS ALL THINGS ARE MADE UP OF AGGRIGATES A CARS CARNESS CAN NEVER BE FOUND WITHIN OR EXTERNAL TO ITS AGGRIGATES NOR AS A COMBINATION OF BOTH NOR NEITHER SO IN A SIMILAR WAY THE SELF ATMAN SOUL OR CREATOR GOD CAN NEVER BE FOUND BECAUSE MANIFEST COSMOS IS BEGININGLESS ENDLESS ALL PRODUCTS WHICH ARE BORN CLEARLY END BUT MANIFEST COSMOS AS A WHOLE DOES NOT HAVE A BEGINING NOR END SO BY THE SAME LOGIC SATAN DOES NOT EXIST BUT FROM A BUDDHIST HINDU POINT OF VIEW THE PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL IS MARA A MIND POSSESED OF 3 POISONOUS MINDS HATRED GREED AND INNATE IGNORANCE OF ANATA SHUNYATA=SELFLESSNESS LACK INHERANT UNCAUSED PRODUCTION OF ALL MANIFEST COSMOS PRODUCTS SUGGESTS BEING ITSELF IS DIVINE SO ALL LIFE NEEDS TO BE TREATED WITH RESPECT SO HUMAN AND CHILD SACRIFICING TO BAAL OR MOLOCH IS A MIDDLE EASTERN THINKING POST DARWIN ALL MODERN NATIONS OF A SECULAR NATURE REJECT . AUSTRALIAN FORIEGN MINISTER PENNY WONG WAS CORRECT NOT TO LET AUSTRALIANS SHIPS ENTER THE RED SEA WHICH IS NOW CONTROLED BY HOUTI YEMENI AND IRAN WHO IS BACKED BY RUSSIA DONT FORGET IN USA CIVIL WAR IN 1860S RUSSIA SENT ITS NAVEY TO DEFEND PRESIDENT LINCOLN UNIONIST ANTI SLAVERS AND EAST AND WEST COAST OF USA FROM FRENCH AND ENGLISH BLOCKADES IN SUPPORT OF CONFEDERATE SLAVERY OF GENERAL ALBERT PIKE "MORALS AND DOGMATISTS" WHO SENT FREEMASONIC JESUIT AGENT JOHN WILKS BOOTH TO ASSASINATE UNIONIST PRESIDENT LINCOLN FOR WINNING 1860S USA WAR AGAINST SLAVER WHICH WAS REALY A WAR AGAINST UNITED KINGDOM ROTHSCHILDS ZIONIST SLAVERS WHO ALSO BANKRUPTED UK 1815 BY MISSREPORTING THE RESULT OF UK VICTORY OVER NAPOLEON AT WATERLOO 1814 AND ROTHSCHILDS GAINED CONTROL OF PRIVATE RESERVE CENTRAL BANK OF ENGLAND AND CAN NOW PRINT MONEY OUT OF THIN AIR AND LEND IT TO NATIONS ROTHSCHILDS DRIVE TO WAR TYPICALY BACKING BOTH SIDES FOR PROFIT OF PRIVATE RESERVE BANKS ISRAELI ROTHSCHILDS ZIONIST STATE AND THEY ATTEMPT ESTABLISHING ANOTHER ISRAELI JEWISH RACIST STATE IN UKRAIN WITH BACKING FROM NATO WHICH IS REGARDED AS SEDITION AND TREASONOUS SUPPORT BY ACADEMIA OF ENSTIEN CLOWNS BIG BANG BLACK HOLE THEORY NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY OF OPENHIEMER MANHATAN PROJECT SO THESE ISRAELI AND UKRAIN USTAZI ZIONISTS FROM A COMMONWEALTH DEMOCRATIC LEGAL POINT OF VIEW ARE HITLERS WAR CRIMINALS STILL GOING ON IMPOSING CORPORATE FASCISM 100 YEARS AFTER WW1 WHICH ENDED 1918 WITH ONLY A TEMPORARY CEASEFIRE ARMASTICE DAY 11 NOVEMBER 1918 WHICH RESULTED FROM ANZAC BRITISH RAJ (RAJA YANA -ROYAL VICTORY OF ANZAC LIGHTHORSE BRIGADE AT BERSHEEBA EARLY 1917 THIS VICTORY WAS IMMEDIATLY REVERSED BY UK FREEMASON LORD BALFOUR DECLARATION TO ROTHSCHILD BANKING CARTEL OF YIDDISH SEMITE EURPEAN ASKANAZI KHAZARIAN EUROPEAN MONGOL TURK CAUCASIAN SETTLMENTS IN PREDOMINANTLY ARAB PENINSULA TRIBES IN PALESTINE 1917 THIS DIFFERENCE IN CULTURE IS WHAT KEEPS ANGLES SAXON AND NORMAN ARYAN FREE THESE ARE ARYA BEINGS WHERE I DEFINE AN ARYA IS A PERSON WHO HAS NIRVANA ACCESS AND KNOWS IMPERMANENCE MEANS PRODUCTS HAVE CAUSES AND AS THERE IS NO FIRST CAUSE LOGICALY ESTABLISHABLE FOR MANIFEST COSMOS PRODUCTS THEY CAN BE ASSUMED TO BE ALWAYS EXISTENT AND NEVER ENDING THUS ATMAN SELF SOUL CREATOR GODS LACK UNCAUSED PRODUCTION AND ESSENCE SO ARE ULTIMATLY MIND OR BEING WRAUGHT MAHA YANA SHUNYATA STATES LIBERAL PARTY AND WESTERN AUSTRALIA HAS BEEN TAKEN OVER BY DUTCH AND ANGLO EAST INDIA COMPANY ILLUMINATI FREEMASONIC ISRAELI ROTHSCHILDS ZIONISTS THE PROBLEM FOR AUKUS IS 270 MILLION INDONESIANS WHO ARE TRADITONALY HINDU BUDDHIST AND INDIGENOUS RELIGION BUT ISRAEL CONTROLS INDONESIA VIA 1965 GENOCIDE PERPETRATOR GENERAL PROBOWA AND ZIONISTS IN USA CIA NOW CONTROL A NOMINALY MUSLIM REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA POST WW2 AND TURKIC MONGOL CONQUESTS OF 12CAD WERE THE RESULT OF TIBETAN BUDDHISM BEING INFILTRATED BY MARCO POLO JESUIT VENETIAN CLERICAL AGENTS OF CHINESE OPIUM WARLORDS , SO 30 MILLION MALAY ARE ALSO NOMINALY MUSLIM BUT THESE ARE BRITISH/INDIAN RAJA YANIST RICE IRRAGATORS KINGDOMS AND HINDU BUDDHISTS CIVILIZATION , INDIAN EMPORER ASHOKA 300BC WAS THE CAUSE OF 50 MILLION THAI HINDU BUDDHISTS OF SOUTH EAST ASIA, ALL SUPPORT PALESTINE IN ISRAELI GAZA CONFLICT . SO WHILE AUKUS SUPPORTS ISRAEL AND ABRAHAMIC ROTHSCHILDS NAZI ZIONIST CREEDS AUSTRALIANS NUCLEAR DEFENCE ALLIENCE WILL NOT HAVE LAND FORCES TO COMBAT 1.6 BILLION INSURGENT COMMUNIST CHINESE WHO VIA CHRISTIAN ZIONIST ISRAELI PUPPET AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER LIBERAL PARTY SCOTT MORISON LEASE OF DARWIN HARBOUR TO LANDBRIDGE CORPORATION OF CCP ALLOWED COMMUNISTS TO CONTROL DARWIN HARBOUR FOR THE NEXT 99 YEARS. TODAY WIKILEAKS JULIAN ASSANGE CAN BE COMPARED TO AN ANZAC ON KOKODA TRAIL EXPOSING NAZI ROTHSCHILDS ZIONIST BANKING CARTELS TREASON AND FALSE FLAG TERRORISM OF PEOPLE LIKE SERIAL FALSE FLAG ARTIST SUSPECTED PORT ARTHUR MASSACAR ENGINEER ZIONIST PM JOHN HOWARD AND HIS ISRAELI ROTHSCHILDS ZIONIST NAZI INSURGENT FREINDS OF KISSENGER AND ASSOCIATED CORPORATE FASCIST PAPIST AND ZIONSIT MUSSALINI HITLER TYPES.
What an honour to listen to these men who are relating their experiences. My Dad was a POW on the Burma Railway. He was taken from Saigon to the virgin jungle of Kinsayok in Siam at the start of the 1943 Speedo period. I humbly thank you from the bottom of my heart for telling this true story.
When i was a teen i started work at Fielders flour mill Tamworth N.S W my miller was Frank Thompson he told me he was a machine gunner the whole new Guinea campaign he said life expencecy was 7 mins in battle he survived the whole war tough old bastard he was 65 years old then in 1979 RIP to another legend
My great grandfather fought the Japanese and was taken as a POW to Changi prison 😢 As an Aussie I will never forget was these men went through, we hold them in our hearts ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Never forget that Australian unions stopped supplies getting to Australian soldiers in PNG during WWII because unions are filthy stinkin communists and they will do it again.
100% correct the wharfies want danger money for loading the munitions & Japs were virtually at the Australian back door .I believe the military police put them against the wall and the military loaded the ship. Quite treasonous behaviour in the opinion of many at the time.
"Cardiff Arms Park; it was like a Catholic going to the Basilica". New Zealanders have always felt the same way. My parents toured Great Britain in 1980 and visited Cardiff. My father said the highlight of the holiday was being allowed to walk out on to the playing field. My mother said he looked like he was walking on hallowed ground.
The soldier wiping his face at 3.15 is Pte Robert Steele NX4831 of the 2/33rd Infantry Battalion. The film depicting that shot was taken 5th October 1942 near Menari on the Kokoda Trail.
Thanks Righty. Fred told us he met the great war photographer Damian Parer who filmed much of this iconic footage and said Parer got them to blow up a tree for the cameras. So somewhere, Fred is filmed too.
@@TheoClarkMedia Thanks for the reply Theo. Robert Steele was my dad. He joined up in October 1939, departed Australia on the Queen Mary May 1940 on the way to the M.E. Events in the war had the convoy being diverted to G.B. The 25th Brigade was formed in G.B. with the battalions being 2/25th, 2/31st and the 2/33rd. Eventually saied to the M.E. and participated in the Syrian Campaign. Back in Australia March 1942 and then in September1942 up the Kokoda trail and on to Gona. Wounded twice at Gona. Again in New Guinea 1943 to early 1944 and back home. Discharged in August 1944 just shy of five years service. In the film just after the close up of Pte. Steele, aka Stainless aka Bob, there is another shot of four troopers with Stainless leading crossing a creek. Bob is carrying the gun and the trooper behind is carrying the tripod. Bob spoke of a little Scottsmen who was lucky to be 5 foot tall and 8 stone in a wringing wet overcoat. He added the Scott also cut off his trouser legs and shirt sleeves. So I would say the trooper behind Bob is the one he spoke off. He also added the little bloke carrying the same weight as the big blokes powered up the step climbs making sure the others got a serve. Wounds, malaria, skin afflictions- dermatitis. Skin peeling off around groin area and down legs. Feet and toes as well. Dysentery. Anyhow he filled me in with a lot of stories with most good ones but a few not so. Hard times for all who served. Regards, Righty.
As a rugby loving Englishman I’ve nothing but admiration for these old boys - touring for 5 months incredible - all come across as true gents - a testament to sporting character
I'm kiwi great stuff here awesome history pity Rugby didn't turn professional earlier so these guys could had made a living from the game and supported their families. Great story about Ken Catchpole ahead of his time a gifted scrum-half, Captained Australia at 21 Great Stuff Australia.
Indeed. But for the citizens of north and east coast Australian cities, do not underestimate how significant it was to deny the Japanese a naval and airforce base in Port Moresby to molest shipping and bomb civilian populations. It is a point of pride for Australians that the AIF participated in both the first defeat of German land forces at Tobruk, and the first defeats of Japanese land forces in New Guinea, though obviously both events pale in comparison to what later took place on the Russian Front and the Japanese outer islands. But beyond these particulars however, Fred tells a universal story of "courage, endurance, mateship and sacrifice" known to any soldier, and the poignancy of him remembering the dying Japanese prisoner looking up at him, and describing the real battle that began after the war with the separation of soldiers from their mates, could, I am sure, be told by servicemen from many fronts.
@@TheoClarkMedia An excellent reply. You put it in context about the universal soldier. Yes the defence of Port Moresby was absolutely vital for the reasons you said. You alluded to the Russian front, but there were others,chiefly the Allied invasion of North West Europe without which the Russians would have failed. Then there was Italy, not a soft underbelly but a tough old gut as General Mark Clark said. And if course there was El Alamein with great Aussie 9th division and Burma where the British and Indian 14th army subjected the Japanese to their heaviest ground defeat. Then there was the bomber offensives Europe and Pacific we could go on. It was an all round effort to defeat two evil regimes. Regards.
That's all we want from life isn't it, to be remembered with fondness, that someone else's life was better for our being in it? Rugby (original) specialised in providing a path to limited greatness. Limited only by how deep and often into the rucks of life we were prepared to go. From scared little single digit age motor-mouths into men of increased calibre. What a game it ...
The boom-bust nature of Rugby performance by Australians doesn't quite ring true. We produce athletes like the Swiss make clocks. It's almost like administrator's egos foul the nest after a spell of good outings trying to claim some of the credit, who can always point at the 'cattle' and not themselves. Wouldn't be the first time either. We're a weird mob.
