4 Field Regiment (SVN) 'Old Boys' Newsletter - November 2015 Edition

please let me know by the end of January at the latest. PJ will need to have some idea of numbers in order to confirm venue bookings. Accommodation, transport etc. is your own responsibility. There is a myriad of sites available to book accommodation and when you get to Melbourne, get yourself a Myki card to use on all public transport. Trams within the CBD are now free but the Shrine is not in the free zone. From Tim Makinson Hi Pete. Hope I find you well. I went to Perth recently (July) for a school reunion and caught up with Moe Armstrong and Ron Bates for a pleasant long lunch in Fremantle tried to contact Tom Beynon on the farm down in Narrogin but unable to get through. Came home on Indian Pacific courtesy of “diggers discount” with Great Southern Rail good trip but it’s still using 1968 rolling stock !! Moe gave a contact number for Geoff Dunkley who I knew had recent contact with John Fraser, finally got hold of John after many years (we shared Tent 5 along with Australia’s greatest Garbage Technician John Buchanan). Silly thing is finally caught up with John Fraser in NZ last week (NZ was still abuzz with World cup celebrations) I was getting off Celebrity Solstice as John and Sharryn were boarding for trip to Sydney, so we had a few hours to down some of NZ’s finest and tell a few lies also mentioned next year’s possible Melb ANZAC day get together. I hope Mr Smith PJ still has this on his agenda !! apart from Nth Melb’s 2016 playing list Hope to catch up in April Cheers Tim From Ben Creswick -106 Battery (I had sent Ben some photos from the Sandy Nall Collection.) Dear Peter. Thank you very much. The photographs are gold to us especially the one on the back of the truck. The group photographs will be used first up in order to give the maximum exposure to as many men as possible. Photographs like these give the wider world an appreciating of the work we did and the conditions we had to put up with. In my job as a Public Health Inspector I had the role to place demolition orders on old houses. I came across a few WW1 Digger's homes with WW1 photographs in them that would have gone to the tip. I was too honest to take them or to further rat the home for WWI material. My wife and I were in an Opportunity shop and I recognised a book I had given to a 7RAR mate who had just passed away. Lo and behold there was his entire collection of Vietnam books that I bought for a song. The woman running the shop then told me she had a bag of papers that the family had left with the books she asked me to take them so in them I found a copy of a story of the man's service he had written. I got to thinking that with our Vets dying off a similar thing might happen given many families do not care or just want to forget the negative side of their Dad/Husband. Therein lies part of what we are on about with publishing the book. We have in the process unleashed similar musings by some blokes and their first response is to want to donate to the AWM. I am suggesting to them that they would be better donating their