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

photographs to the Royal Australian Artillery association as the AWM will just file the material amongst so many other millions of objects that they receive. The AWM also charges you an arm and a leg to obtain copies of material they have. It was going to cost John $600 for an enlarged print from the AWM he wanted include in a public display he made for the Vietnam Vets Museum at Phillip Island. So John rang the CO of the 7RAR unit who had an original and he e mailed it to John. The display is set up next to the L5 they have down there. When the L5's were being taken off us John asked George Robinson if he could have the firing pin of Number 4 Gun and that forms part of the display. We do not know how long a firing pin lasted but we like to think that it might have been in Number 4 Gun when it was fired at the Battle of Long Tan. I have a great affinity for the L5 having lost all the skin on every knuckle during the first week pulling them apart at the training area near where the Arty Museum used to be. One day we were up there a fantastic parade of Tall Ships entered Sydney harbour some of the trainees fired a salute from Middle Head. This attachment is Major Cape and his headquarter FOO team. Regards from Ben. Right to Left. Kelly, Lemmich, Ham, Costergarton, Cape Also from John and Ben re 106 Bty John Godfrey and I as co-authors of the 'Turtle Times' have rallied the 106 Filed Battery First Tour Of Duty 1967/8 Veterans and Widows to the cause of printing a 72 page glossy book of mainly photographs to mark our time in South Vietnam coming up to 50 years since these records were first made. Nobby Clark has provided us with a 4 page Introduction in which he delicately mentions both he and Michael's awards of gallantry. Nobby mentions that the Barrack Lines in the 4th Field Townsville are named after the 'Suoi Chau Pha' Battle the and Ros Williams will provide a historical piece on Michael's