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Bill's Excellent Adventure

Alec Campbell, 101, witnesses FLTLT Richard Rahdon sign a parchment marking the passing on of the Anzac tradition in 2000. Mr Campbell, the last original Anzac, died in 2002. SGT Bill Guthrie shares a rare moment in front of the camera with East Timorese children on Atro Island. A RAN member on patrol at the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr in 2003, where locals had defaced a painting of Saddam Hussein.

Alec Campbell, 101, witnesses FLTLT Richard Rahdon sign a parchment marking the passing on of the Anzac tradition in 2000. Mr Campbell, the last original Anzac, died in 2002.

SGT Bill Guthrie shares a rare moment in front of the camera with East Timorese children on Atro Island.

A RAN member on patrol at the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr in 2003, where locals had defaced a painting of Saddam Hussein.

 MAJ Kurt Rezek, with note book, and SGT Refik Mulanic, with mine detector, in the Bijele Vode minefield in Bihac, Bosnia, in 2002. The Queen’s coach passes under Admiralty Arch at her Golden Jubilee, the 50th year of her coronation. This photograph was made into a postcard. A US Navy member on duty in the Gulf.

MAJ Kurt Rezek, with note book, and SGT Refik Mulanic, with mine detector, in the Bijele Vode minefield in Bihac, Bosnia, in 2002.

The Queen’s coach passes under Admiralty Arch at her Golden Jubilee, the 50th year of her coronation. This photograph was made into a postcard.

A US Navy member on duty in the Gulf.

LAC David Turner signals the all clear at Komoro Airport in Dili, East Timor. SGT Guthrie’s father, FLTLT Vic Guthrie in Japan in 1946.

“I’ve worked in 55 degree heat to minus 5 degree cold; I’ve worked in mine fields ... I’ve worked in battle zones; I’ve slept in the dirt and I’ve slept in palaces.”

LAC David Turner signals the all clear at Komoro Airport in Dili, East Timor.

SGT Guthrie’s father, FLTLT Vic Guthrie in Japan in 1946.

Arthur Leggett and CAPT Noel Gilby at the Acropolis, Greece, in 2001 to mark the 60th anniversary of the Battles of Greece and Crete. The two battles saw Australian and Allied troops assisting the Greek and Cretan peoples against German attack. More than 17,000 Australian troops served in Greece. Almost 600 were killed and more than 5000 taken prisoner. Adiho Ferhandes, a Falintil pro-independence member astride a pony, meets Interfet soldiers SGT Park Yong Hyo and Signaller John Baseley at the Los Palos airfield, East Timor, in 1999. The three men exchange greetings in English, Korean and Tetum.

Arthur Leggett and CAPT Noel Gilby at the Acropolis, Greece, in 2001 to mark the 60th anniversary of the Battles of Greece and Crete. The two battles saw Australian and Allied troops assisting the Greek and Cretan peoples against German attack. More than 17,000 Australian troops served in Greece. Almost 600 were killed and more than 5000 taken prisoner.

Adiho Ferhandes, a Falintil pro-independence member astride a pony, meets Interfet soldiers SGT Park Yong Hyo and Signaller John Baseley at the Los Palos airfield, East Timor, in 1999. The three men exchange greetings in English, Korean and Tetum.

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