"SAY AGAIN, OVER"
CAPTION COMPETITION
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Keep entries under 25 words. Entries will not be accepted after May 16 and must include the sender’s name, rank, unit and location.
The winning entry will be published in the May 22 edition. The winners will receive a copy of Ted Serong: The Life of an Australian Counter-Insurgency Expert which is part of the Australian Army History series, courtesy of the Army History Unit. If you have a high-resolution digital funny or bizzarre photograph you would like to see in Say Again, Over, please e-mail it to the above e-mail address. Remember to send it sec: unclassified.

Colour Patch Corner
By Cpl Phillip Blackwell
Defence Centre - Brisbane
(Army Component)

Description: This Series 2 patch was worn by members of Defence Centre – Brisbane (Army Component). This unit has been amalgamated into Service Delivery - Southern Queensland.
The patch base colours are based on the joint service colours
2/14LHR (QMI)

Description: This Series 1 colour patch was originally worn by members of the 2nd Light Horse Regiment in WW1.
ARTC

Description: This Series 2 is worn by members of ARTC, formerly 1RTB.
The patch base colours are based on the Army Headquarters Schools Series I patch colours.

OUR LAST WINNER
And the winner is ...

“Can someone please get us down from here? We've been here so long we've grown out of our T-shirts!”

– Dave Regan, CSI-Brisbane, who wins Australia’s Military Map-Makers.




Army news staff also liked:


“Absolutely spellbound with his results, Gunner Smyth rubbed the barrel yet again and made his tenth wish.”
– Major Ian Anfruns, ALTC

“Having clearly requested barrel wrenches, the BM was nonetheless impressed with the QM's dyslexia.”
– Major Ian Anfruns, again

“It's the latest in urban camouflage, Sir. No one's even noticed there's a gun there at all.”
– Capt Dan Hayes, CSIO-R

“With another RODUM out on the 105mm balancing problem and the soldiers spouses wanting more involvement in the workplace

On this Day

May 9
1901 – Tasmanian troops drive Scheeper’s commandos out of Craddock District, South Africa.
May 10
1940 – Germany invades Holland and Belgium.
May 11
1945 – 6 Div captures Wewak, New Guinea.
1969 – WO2 Ray Simpson, AATTV, awarded the VC for his actions in Vietnam.
May 12
1917 – Lt Rupert Moon, 58 Bn, awarded the VC for his actions near Bullecourt.
1945 – Cpl John Mackey, 2/3 Pnr Bn, awarded the VC posthumously for his actions on Tarakan Island, East Indies (now Indonesia).
May 13
1943 – Australian commitment in British North Africa campaign ends at Tunisia.
May 14
1943 – Hospital ship Centaur sunk by Japanese submarine off Queensland, killing 268 people. Only 63 men and one female nurse rescued by USS Mugford.
1956 – 2RAR attacks communist terrorists near Sungei Siput, Malaya.
May 15
1945 – Pte Edward Kenna, 2/4 Bn, awarded the VC for his actions near Wewak, New Guinea.
May 16
1901 – Lt Frederick Bell, 6th West Australian Mounted Infantry, awarded the VC for his actions at Brakpan, Transvaal.
1945 – 9 Div soldiers land on Brunei.
1968 – Battle for Support Base Coral.
May 18
1915 – Gen William Bridges dies of wounds on board the hospital ship Gascon.
May 19
1918 – Sgt William Ruthven, 22 Bn, awarded the VC for his actions at Ville-sur-Ancre, France,
May 20
1915 – LCpl Albert Jacka, 14 Bn New Zealand and Australian Div, won the first Australian WWI VC for his actions at Courtney’s Post, Gallipoli.
1951 – Chinese offensive on UN Forces in Korea collapses.
**** – #140 Sig Sqn.
May 21
**** – #111 AD Bty.