bush musketeer

taken from remeberances of the 2nd ESB (engineer special brigade) at Finchhaven.
"Remember the time we reported a jap 77mm being set up just below katika village?" hoyer asked "the Aussie gun crew took a look through their glasses, thanked us, then sat down again. Every 15 minutes all day long I'd take a look at the japs digging thier gun in-was i worried!

"then late in the afternoon.,just as the japs were shoving the first shell into the breech, the Aussies fired one round....Knocked out the gun, crew and emplacement. Later i asked one of the Aussies why they had waited so long before firing and he tells me:"we wanted to see the bloody barstards work."

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Although our task was never easy, it was made less difficult by the patriotism and passionate valour of the Australians, Which served as an example to the whole world, you saved Amiens, you saved France.
Feild Marshal Ferdinand Foch 1918