Peter Bruce and Joe Postol in SVN Joe Postol Tombstone in Sandgate Cemetery, New Castle From Neville Clark Dear Peter, What a brilliant Newsletter, congratulations! Excellent stories, and a heartening update from 4 Regt about the new SP guns - with all the Defence cuts there’s still hope for the Artillery after all. Nice photo of John Wilson (106 Bty Sig Sgt, 1966-8) with Lt Col Simon Frewen, an excellent CO, who has been particularly kind to visiting Old Boys. Glad you also included Ben Burrow’s Tommy Sawyer story (and the tragic death of Barry Tregear) as well as the nice tribute from three-tour veteran Shane Oxenham to “Chuck” Berry, the 106 Medic (first tour). Well done, all round! Neville Clark. From Shane Oxenham Peter. Thanks for the (again) interesting Newsletter. In particular, the articles by R. Hall and Ben Burrows. At the moment I am enjoying reading Kevin O'Brien's book on Long Tan. His observations as a result of research have thrown a spotlight on what happened rather than the paucity of information available to those on the ground at the time. As you probably know, communication to the coal face was not a priority at that time. Best wishes, Shane Email from Ken (Spud) Murphy on 17 June. (Ken (Spud) Murphy died on 31 July this year. We have written an obituary for Ken which will be posted on the RAAHC website in due course. Amazing what you find out about an individual – after their death. Hi Pete. Great read mate. Just returned from a few weeks in NZ with my daughter. Had the sad duty of reporting the passing of Ray Chadburn a stalwart of the 1959 - 61 Malaya 101 Fd Bty vets and a friend of many of the 4 Fd. old boys. Best Regards Spud Murphy Gabby Hayes advises that we have $497.54 in our working account with our term deposit due for renewal in December. The cost of our figurine is $162.39 (including postage to JW) which leaves us with a balance of $335.15. We might have to use some of our term deposit funds to booster the working account.
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