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If there's a life that follers this
If there's a "Golden Gate",
The welcome that I want to 'ear,
Is just "Good onya Mate"
Lest we forget
The Medals of Lt. Col. C.H. Green (killed in action, age 30, Chongchon North Korea
Individualism, fair play, tolerance
A rare sense of humour
Independence, not blind discipline
Respect for results, not rank alone.
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KW TimeLine
"Korea Remembered"
47 Great Yarns

 50 Years Ago
Ernie Went To Korea
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Charles Green To The Chongchon Royal Australian Regiment
38th Parallel
A Police Action
- Biography -
 		A peacetime not forgotten ...   A pause to reflect as Charlie assumes command of 3 RAR   Charlie prepares 3 RAR as UN lands at Inchon   Charlie never looked down on anyone. Well ...   With General Coad    Middlesex crosses the Chongchon   On the drive north   
Alec Weaver KW Observations
'Life' in the Frontline
Infantry Training
Why I'm not A General
 		A German emigrant in the RAR   One way to get a bit of cot time ...   A proper cigarette holder ...   A cup of tea ...   DMZ, on guard   An honour and privilege   KW Veterans remembered  
Apple Orchard 'Snow' Dicker
Origlassi
Derrington
More than Kapyong
 		You'd think we would have known better ...   Rare Award for Brave Soldier   Bren Gun Carrier Ferryer ...    The Bridge was Broken, but not 3RAR ...    All 3RAR deeply felt the loss of our Commanding Officer    Having a rest    Heads up, you've earned the right !!   
Korea 1950-51 Ian John Godfrey
A year in Korea
Scrambling along its peaks,
Struggling along its valleys
Fatigued, cold and weak
Fighting a fiendish enemy
In savage cold,
One year in Korea .
19 years and I am old.
R. K. Cashman Little Gibraltar
The Mound
George
Ham Sandwich
 		Absent Friends   Naahh, they won't mind us ...   A Patrol's Fate   This bloke won't get much, we got him flanked   Lonely? Well, neighbors drop by now and again ...   My Guard   Mates  
Jim Reardon Royal Australian Navy
Shipwrecked Matelots
Recruit 		But what about the windshields, mate??   A Brief Promotion   CIC? .. that's Crew's Information Center   Traveling In Style   More bangers and mash, chaps?   A cuppa might do about now   oops...  
An Aussie Op Operation Buffalo August 13-14, 1952
Eddie Wright
Operation Buffalo
 		Any prisoners? ... not bloody likely   and take 2 APCs ...   Some survivors of Hill 75   Thanks, Mate, now where's the rum?   TLC   Burned and in shock   Letter from Max, after Operation Buffalo  
1st Battalion Royal Australian Regiment
1 RAR
Hill 159
War Diary
Operation Blaze   Documentary    Long ago and far away ...   Patrol   On duty   Unit photo   You'd be scared, too   
2nd Battalion Royal Australian Regiment
Korea '53-'54
My Story
2RAR SitRep 		Not too close Mate, the bloke's just sunbathing ...   Yeah, we know, but it tires 'em out runnin in and out of their tunnels   Before ...    ... After   Bird's eye view   The Hook   He's with friends, mate   
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A Belgian Sister and myself were holding a massively wounded Turkish soldier who had just died. And that gentle sister was softly singing to him, a lullaby from her home province. And her look of such great compassion and tenderness I shall not forget. And I am very glad that I had met and worked with
Sister Marie-Josephine, of Belgium
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"Gus" Breen
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"Gus" Breen
 Air Strike
John Graham
 No Tanks
Dick Garrett
 Stretcher Party
Bill Williams
 Midnight Stroll
Frank Hampson
 RAN: Harry
Tim Holt
 Festive Season - 1951
Ron Cashman
 Lingering Regrets
Ron Cashman
 Aussie POWs
Unknown
 Shank's Booties
Jim Jacobs
KoreanWar.alt
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My Warrie
John Lewis
No Man's Land
Rosamund O'Brien
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Three Brave Men
(Doc) Thomas
Smell of Blood
Keith Hatfield
Shot Down
Len Smeaton
Broken Bridge
Ron Cashman
Digger
Alec Weaver
Operation Big Switch
The Aussie's Friend   Another 6 Platoon Layabout   Yeah, that's the one with the bunion ...   Snowy   A kind of closure   Visitors by invitation only ...   Anything less conspicuous, mate?
My turn to deal, is it ...   I'm here, Mate, bring it on   Yeah, I reckon I'm man enough to wear it ...   About to be thrown into the crucible   HQ A Coy   Unknown, Kapyong lies ahead   Naaahhh, you're not too heavy
Just before Operation Commando   Wouldn't be here if I wasn't ready, Mate   Very Popular Sign   War Is Hell   Hiro, after Korea   Teatime on The Hook   A Commonwealth Division
Good Lads   Whaddaya mean the ships are closing ?   Yeah, well, we didn't come here to plant rice, Mate   They all wanted to join 3RAR   You say they want to put women in the front lines? Yeah?? When???   Yeah, we're moving through, any objections?   Accidents do happen
Don't forget the calling cards ...   Been there, done that ...   Anybody Home ?   Dinner ready?   Home in a low-rise   The Price of Freedom   Times Do Change
Samichon Valley    Tennn-Hut!    An Umbilical   Different kind of Persuasion    And after tea, a bit of a sun bath    So this is the place ...   Stretcher bearer to Sax
Officers Club? well, at least there's no Incoming    The Imjin   Yeah, high enough, but could have used a thick roof ...    Not many were cross-eyed with glasses ...    Some Sausage !!   What? no trees?   He's with friends, mate
Do you know this man?   Well, as we aren't having Parade anyway ...   The USMC had no complaints about our lot   Reckon this means we can get a little cot time now ?   Action at the rear   These blokes always smile, standing on the ground ...   Safe from our artillery ... until they came out
1 RAR remembered ...    Gallant U.S. Mosquito Pilot    Yeah, reckon that's bent    Crikey, glad us Digs got grenades ...    Early Christmas present for 1RAR ...    3RAR Operation Commando   Registered on Coy HQ ? naaah. At least ...
Mate, I'll carry you _and_ your gear    Little Gibraltar   We didn't forget them ...   Can't see, target's covered with smoke   Yank Machine Guns?   There's a reason most veterans don't smile ...   A Company was full of layabouts
Yeh can tickle me, Cuddles, but I still wants me pint back   3RAR has the North Koreans on the run   There's always a price ...   Slim got in his own hits before he was captured and killed   2RAR SitRep - Defending Hill 159   Brian Falvey of Ham Sandwich   Angel of Mercy indeed
Aussie observers flew in the Mossies   Yeh, well, I'm still swapping it for a flak jacket ...   You have to know how to ask ...   Always welcome ... by Our infantry ...   These calling cards were seldom welcome   Some Punchbowl ... !   In an Emergency, Just dial 77 ... !
A Healing sight indeed, for a wounded Digger   The best die first ... !   Attractive setting ... for murdered POWs   Hello ... and GoodBye !   Oh, shut up and die like a gentleman!   What's your mate doing in the cockpit, Slim ...   Poor chap didn't need it any more ...
A stroll at dusk ...    Now there's a Hook to this    In honour, in pride, in aching sorrow ...    Don't sneak up, mate, I'm still nervous    Ready if needed    Bloke must figure on starting a Chinese restaurant now   The way it was for 77 Squadron
            I remember Maryang San             Bonds of peace             From Comrades In Arms ...             In Memory
Anyone who would volunteer to go to a kimshi eating, fecal-agriculture country, with nothing but vertical contours, killer winters and killer rains, with killer hot seasons in between, in order to help preserve its freedom by engaging its brutal invaders in close combat, is a risk taker. No common sense, the Digs, at all at all.
God bless you every one.

A SOLDIER DIED TODAY

He was getting old and paunchy and his hair was falling fast,
And he sat around the Legion, telling stories of the past.
Of a war that he had fought in and the deeds that he had done,
In his exploits with his mates; they were heroes, every one.

And tho' sometimes, to his neighbors, his tales became a joke,
All his Legion mates listened, for they knew whereof he spoke.
But we'll hear his tales no longer for old Bill has passed away,
And the world's a little poorer, for a soldier died today.

He will not be mourned by many, just his children and his wife,
For he lived an ordinary and quite uneventful life.
Held a job and raised a family, quietly going his own way,
And the world won't note his passing, though a soldier died today.

When politicians leave this earth, their bodies lie in state,
While thousands note their passing and proclaim that they were great.
Papers tell their whole life stories, from the time that they were young,
But the passing of a soldier goes unnoticed and unsung.

Is the greatest contribution to the welfare of our land
A guy who breaks his promises and cons his fellow man?
Or the ordinary fellow who, in times of war and strife,
Goes off to serve his Country and offers up his life?

A politician's stipend and the style in which he lives
Are sometimes disproportionate to the service that he gives.
While the ordinary soldier, who offered up his all,
Is paid off with a medal and perhaps, a pension small.

It's so easy to forget them for it was so long ago,
That the old Bills of our Country went to battle, but we know
It was not the politicians, with their compromise and ploys,
Who won for us the freedom that our Country now enjoys.

Should you find yourself in danger, with your enemies at hand,
Would you want a politician with his ever-shifting stand?
Or would you prefer a soldier, who has sworn to defend
His home, his kin and Country and would fight until the end?

He was just a common soldier and his ranks are growing thin,
But his presence should remind us we may need his like again.
For when countries are in conflict, then we find the soldier's part
Is to clean up all the troubles that the politicians start.

If we cannot do him honor while he's here to hear the praise,
Then at least let's give him homage at the ending of his days.
Perhaps just a simple headline in a paper that would say,

Our Country is in mourning, for

 A SOLDIER DIED TODAY

© 1987 A. Lawrence Vaincourt



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