AS ANZAC Day approaches, the NVI remembers our war heroes.
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The Gunnedah troop of the First Australian Light Horse in camp at Scone in 1899. The troops formed part of the Australian Mounted Troops who fought in the Boer War, which started in 1899.
Former local cotton farmer, Bob Cock, flew more than 4000 hours during World War 2.
Volunteer National Serviceman John Commins, of Curlewis, went to Vietnam at the tail end of the war which divided a nation.
Luke Connolly served with the Australian peacekeeping forces in East Timor.
Hideous ulcers caused many amputations on the Burma - Thailand railway. These men are wearing artificial limbs made in Changi by WO Arthur Puden of East Maitland. Pictured far right is Boggabri's Pte Alex McKenzie.
Fighter pilot George Scrimgeour had just turned 21 when he was shot out of the air by a Japanese Zero warplane over Kuala Lumphur on December 1941.
Corporal James Greig fought in the Middle East, New Guinea.
Lawrie Percy, from Gunnedah, 3rd Btn RAR served in Korea and Malaya.
Kelvin's Phil Barwick was critically wounded, losing both his eyes, in the Vietnam War and eventually succumbed to his shocking injuries in 1988.
Former Gunnedah St Xavier's student Sgt Len Stifflet was 27 when he was beheaded by the Japanese in 1945.
Out on the road - the Wallaby March heading towards Gunnedah in December 1915. A large crowd joined the marchers on the outskirts of town.
A hill top church service for soldiers in Syria in 1942.
Gunnedah conscript Colin Clarke did two tours of duty Vietnam. He is pictured chatting with local children on Long Son Island, an isolated and then unfriendly island off the Vietnam Coast.
Frank McDonagh, back row, left, who was wounded at Fozieres and returned to the front. Harly McDonagh, right, was killed in action in 1916. Leslie McDonagh (front) served in the 1st AIF and later the 1st Horse Regiment. Their units saw some of the fiercest fighting on Gallipoli, however, all three were kept in reserve in Egypt and weren't sent to the peninsular. They later went on to France and Syria.
Vietnam returned veterans each year pay tribute to those who died in the Battle of Long Tan in 1966. Picture shows the commemoration at the Cenotaph on August 18,2004. Front, Jock Jamieson, left, Stan Matthews. Standing, from left, Larry Thurston, Kerry Bee, Malcolm Jones, Mick Hull, Danny Johnson, Neville Steele, John Connelly, Bob Wells, and RSL President Roy Law.
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