It was the evening of 8th August 1945 the ‘Big Six’ or Supreme Council for the Direction of the War—refused to concede to an unconditional surrender. They held out for conditions that would protect the imperial throne and avoid foreign occupation, remaining deadlocked 3-to-3 until Emperor Hirohito intervened. It was two days since an atomic bomb had devasatated Hiroshima. Three hardline military leaders wanted to continue fighting.
Scientific, medical and military teams travelled to Hiroshima to survey and estimate the destruction of Hiroshima.
This war cabinet had not visited the devastation.
Hiroshima had a population of 350,000 people. Suddenly there was no communication in or out of the city. It would take some time for Japan to comprehend what had actually taken place. In fact the same can be said for the whole world.
The Three hardliners were:
General Korechika Anami: The Army Minister who wanted to fight a massive final battle on the home islands to force better terms, later committing suicide rather than seeing the occupation.
General Yoshijirō Umezu: The Chief of the Army General Staff who initially opposed surrender, though he ultimately followed the Emperor’s final order to capitulate. Japanese general and Chief of the Army General Staff during the final years of World War II. He was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Admiral Soemu Toyoda: Chief of Navy General Staff argued for continuing the war rather than accepting total disarmament and Allied occupation. He had Commanded the Combined Fleet after Admiral Mineichi Koga died, directing major operations including Battle of Leyte Gulf. He was tried for war crimes but was fully acquitted.
Emperor Hirohito intervened. Japan would surrender!
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During the same evening of August 8 (Tokyo time), the Soviet Union broke its neutrality pact and declared war on Japan.
Soviet troops would be crossing the Japanese Manchurian boarder in a few hours.
Military authorities and civilian defense networks across western Japan were on high alert, unaware a second US B-29 bomber was already gearing up to launch ‘Fat Man’ atomic bomb on Nagasaki in less than 12 hours, in the morning of 9 August 1945.
The atomic bomb would be dropped on Nagasaki August 9, 1945, at 11:02 AM local time.
Below: Hiroshima several months after the 1945 bombing.
Allied POWs in camps around Japan numbered 36,000.
Below: Lt. Col Michael Anketell, Commanding Officer of 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, 8th Division died 13 Feb 1942 Died of Wounds receieved the previous day.
Below: 2/4th included:
Major C.E. Green – mentioned in Despatches. Commanding Officer, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion.
Saturday afternoon, 6 September 2025 was a blusty winter’s day at the Dinghy Club, Matilda Bay – everybody arrived with a new hair style – the ‘windswept look’. The Perth Dinghy Club overlooks the Swan River and has to be one of the best venues in Perth. The 2/4th’s relationship with the Dinghy Club goes back decades – to much earlier days when 2/4th Committee’s would hold their meetings at Dinghy Club, then located in Perth. The warm relationship between these two organisations grew to sharing social events – invitations to dances/cabarets, sailing afternoons, etc.
We thank everybody for attending. We believe there were about 130 guests in attendance. For many family members it was possible this was the first time they had ever attended a 2/4th event. It was a sad day to say farewell – espescially for an organisation which has been since holding meetings, organising social events and offering mateship and services for 79 years, since the first meeting in 1946.
There were many books available to purchase with a gold coin donation, and a another larger table contained memarobilia.
Below: Gillian Badock & Sally Rutherford
Above: Gillian Badock, Sharon Shaw on Rt and her daughter Laurinda.
Above: Daughters of Wally Winter. Jam & Julie
Above: Marie Magor & Glenda James
Above Phil Badock acknowledges 2/4th Committee
Above: Pam Dorrizi & daughter Lisa
Below: Pam Dorizzi & Cheryl Mellor
Below: Harry Tysoe, President
Below: Gail Pilmoor
My greatest regret is that I didn’t take more photographs – so if anybody else has done so, please forward to us at our emai: Cheryl Mellor 2nd4thmgb@gmail.com
ANZAC DAY 2025 BEGAN WITH EARLY MORNING RAIN. DUE TO A GAS LEAK AROUND THE AREA OF LONDON COURT, ST GEORGE’S TERACE – THE ORGANISERS INSTUCTED ALL PARTICIPANTS TO RELOCATE TO THE HAY STREET MALL AND WILLIAM STREET CORNER.
TO BEGIN IT WAS ALL A LITTLE MESSY UNTIL THE ORGANISERS COULD RELOCATE THE STAGING POSTS FOR THE VARIOUS AND MANY BATTALIONS TO GATHER AND WAIT TO FOR THE MARCH TO COMMENCE.
Hay Street to Barrack Street, turning left at St Georges Terrace.
This small school exercise book was used for half of 1954 & 1955 years for recording 2/4th MGB Committee Meeting notes – it is now more than 70 years old.
1954 Committee: J. Morrison (Pres) I. Heppingstone (Vice-Pres) L. Kemp (Sec) D A Quinn (Treas)
1955:J Duncan (Pres) L. Cody (Vice-Pres) L. Kemp (Sec) D.A. Quinn (Treas)
** Their meetings were held in the evening at various member’s homes every month on second Tuesday.
9 March 1954
**There was a March Past for the Queen’s visit to WA with a reunion to be held after at the Perth Dinghy Club.
** One event to be discussed and arranged was Bamboo Ball.
** 2/4th Picnic – approach Kelmscott Roads Board for permission to use Park.
Decided to hold reunion after March on the Queens Parade 27th March – They are to contact Dingy Club for availability.
They would require 3 X 10 gallon kegs, Biscuits, Cheese & Glasses (168 glasses & 10 jugs) 5lb polony, 3 lb pork fritz, 3 lb veal & ham polony, 7 lb sausages, 1 jar onions, 1doz lettuce, 10lb tomatoes, 2 sticks celery, 1 doz soft drinks.
13 April 1954
**I believe AGM was held in January or February.
The President L. Cody tended his resignation.
A nomination for new President was P. Heppingston.
REPORT COLLIE REUNION
Weekend 27 November 1954
Once again a pleasant weekend was had by those who met at Collie 27th November 1954 for our First Country Reunion.
The Collie members are to be congratulated for the support they gave the Committee organising the reunion.
There were 22 X 2/4th Members present and about 17 visitors. Support from surrounding districts was disgraceful. There were only four members – T. Felthan – Yarloop, J Sott, J. Wade – Donnybrook and J Matthews – Kojonup. Support from Perth was excellent and all present had a really good weekend. Thanks to the Collie Members.
But country members must realise that these country reunions are for them and we must have their support.
A bus from Perth was organised, leaving the Fire Station, Victoria Park 8.00 am.
Meeting at Crown Hotel, Collie 3 pm.
Lambie
Matthews
Ridgwell
Beard
Wade
J Scott
Blakiston
Magill
Gorringe
Tanner
S. Barbour (known as Scottie). Amputee.
Morrison
H Fuhrmann
Barker. (Fred died 1 November 1955 aged 50 years)
E. Fraser
Feltham
Winter
Squance
Correy
Kemp
Simmonds
Basell
Men were organised to stay over with Collie members:
A Magill: Squance & Ridgwell
T. Findlay: T. Beard, T. Feltham, J Morrison, J. Basell
D. Tanner: J. Matthews, F. Barker, Scottie Barbour
J. Correy: E. Fraser, H. Blakiston
H. Furhrmann: L. Kemp
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** Finances are recorded in old Australian Pounds – (Decimal Currency came into being in Australia in 1966.)
** The first Committee Meeting held at Anzac House occurred 12 April 1955 and the next on 14 June 1955 – there is no start and finish time recorded.
Funds accumulated 14 June 1955. Pounds 157/14/19 pence.
**The next AGM to be held 24th January 1956 (if possible).
The First BAMBOO BALL was held in 1954 – 2/4th Committee in 1954 was Johnny Morrison (Pres), Ian Heppingstone (V-Pres), Les Kemp (Sec) and Dan Quinn (Treasurer). The Bamboo Ball would have had its own organising committee.
This event would have required considerable organisation including Hall hire, orchestra, decoration, prizes, alcohol, probably beer in kegs and soft drinks (possibly acquiring a liquor licence) and food – food was catered for. Interestingly, the menu appeas to be Asian cuisine with a great deal of rice!
I know the hall was decorated with recently cut bamboo – Dick Ridgwell told me he was one of those who collected bamboo.
Above: The 2/4th Minutes of Meeting – 1954 & 1955 – Just a small well worn and slightly battered school exercise book, several torn pages – probably for writing out notes for others.
*1954 was a busy year with the first country reunion organised to be held in Collie 27 Nov 1954. 22 Members attended and 17 visitors.
*The 2/4th’s picnic was to be held 21 November 1954 at Kelmscott Grounds – permission received (free of charge) from Armmadale Kelmscott Roads Board.
159 Australian & British POWs from South China Sea four days
after ‘Rakuyo’ Maru sank 12 September 1944, South China Sea between Hainan Island & Luzon after torpedoed by USS ‘Sealion’
Fremantle was the largest sub-marine base in the Southern Hemisphere during WW2. The first US submarine arrived in 1942, and during 1943 the US Navy established a repair facility at North Pier. During the next years more than 170 submarines from US, British and Dutch navies were accommodated.
When USS ‘Pampanito’ sailed into Fremantle Sub Marine Base 30 December 1944, standing on the dock to greet the crew were several rather familiar looking men waving excitedly.
The three young men were Cocking, Pickett and Winter from 2/4th Machine Gun Battaion with beaming smiles, wearing the same dungarees given to them to wear by the crew after they had been pulled from the South China Sea. The three men grabbed the hawsers and tied Pampanito to the pier.
It was New Years Eve! The crew had never such a warm welcome.
The three men were from five men from 2/4th rescued by Pampanito from a total of 73 POWs.
Eleven 2/4th men were included in the total rescued number of 159.
Grateful to the Pampanito crew – they badly wanted to show their gratitude and provide welcoming Aussie hospitality. On that memorable afternoon/evening the crew had given up their sleeping quarters and hesitated to look after the sick POWs – in particular they were especially thankful to pharmacist Doc Demars, who had worked around the clock 24 hours daily to keep the men alive during the five day trip to Saipan, the nearest Allied Port.
Fremantle was a scheduled two-week stop-over with leave and for some change over of staff. After the officers and crew booked into their hotel accommodation with Officers to the Majestic Hotel and crew to the Ocean Beach Hotel at Cottesloe Beach, it was ‘out on the town’ with the Aussies as hosts who ensured the Americans were treated with respect and as heroes!
Normally there existed some ill feelings between Diggers and Americans (mostly over Americans winning the favour of Australian girls while the Diggers were away at war) and of course the Americans were subjected to being overcharged by cab drivers and the like! Not this visit – the Americans reported Wally Winters beat-up the driver of a charcoal-driven taxi who attempted to charge them nearly three times the price of their fare.
Charlie McGuire said the Pampanito crew could go anywhere, to the roughest places in Perth and two or three diggers would step in to protect them.
Fremantle, a smaller city than Perth was a short distance of 20 km away. Western Australia was a vast state – with a small population (446,000 in 1940 Census) – even within the 2/4th MGB there existed family connections from various rural towns across the state. The Battalion was Western Australian raised beginning at end of 1940. The majority had trained together at Northam Army Camp, Woodside Army Camp, South Australia and was posted to Darwin in the Northern Territory until being urgently shipped to Singapore in January 1941at Churchill’s pressing request to Australia’s Prime Minister John Curtin.
The Australians were being withdrawn from the Middle East, returning home to fight the Pacific War and protect Australia. Some of these troops had already been diverted to Singapore and landed in Java. They were also taken POWs of Japan. Curtin directed the remaining troops to sail directly to Australia. It was the last time Curtin responded favourably to Churchill’s requests. Curtin realised it was futile sending more Australians to Singapore which fell to Japan several weeks later on 15 February 1942. More than 32,000 Allied troops were taken POWs.
The Fall of Singapore was the greatest disaster in British war history.
Thereafter Australian families had no news of loved ones – during 1943 the Red Cross was able to send some messages from Thailand. Some families would not learn of their men’s fates/deaths until early 1946 – well after the war ended in August 1945.
Hampson finally reached Australian shores (Brisbane) via USS ‘Monanock’
31 October 1944. He arrived Perth on 1st November 1944.
The POWs were all in terrible physical shape from immersion in the sea, from 4 days of exposure to sun and wind and covered in oil. Any small supplies of water were long gone. There had been no food.
Some had injuries received during their exit off ‘Rakuyo’ – it was dark and several hours before morning. Initially there was panic, madness and cries for help, for mates, for anything! POWs in the hull had to climb onto the deck. After a few hours, realising their ship would take some time to sink because of the cargo of rubber, a number of POWs returned to Rakuyu continued throwing everything that would float was thrown overboard and sought water supplies and food (if they were fortunate).
Shock waves caused by explosions from depth chargers dropped by Japanese frigate ‘Hirado’ had sent ‘electric shocks’ through their bodies badly injuring and killing POWs.
Three and half years as POWs of Japan, working on Thai-Burma Railway where they were subjected to working long days of hard physical labour, daily starvation, beatings and ongoing tropical illnesses for which there were no medicines had left the men in poor physical health.
80th Anniversary of V-J Day & Liberation of the men of 2/4th MGB – Final Service to be hosted by 2/4th MGB – Sunday 10 August 2025, POW Memorial, Kings Park.
By Cheryl Mellor, former Secretary, currently Historian
As Secretary in 2012 I invited the late Peter Dimopolous, then Treasurer to give an address at the Fall of Singapore service, he agreed without any evident hesitation. (I was so pleased!)
“On behalf of all the men in the 2/4th, I wish to apologise to their wives. We former POWs unleashed some terrible nightmares and miseries upon our wives and families.” I was profoundly moved as Peter obviously spoke about his own life. He talked of issues which he and so many former POWs did not have the skills nor knowledge to solve, rectify or even openly talk about.
Today we pay tribute to the ‘real unsung heroes’ of war – the wives of former POWs of Japan. They quietly cared for and supported the more obvious victim of war, their husbands through life-lasting, on-going and intermittent periods of ill health and pyschological trauma.
They faced unique and challenging circumstances and often alone. Many dealt with the long-term effects of beatings, starvation, and trauma experienced by their husbands. Severe malnutrition and inhumane treatment by the Japanese along with numerous untreated tropical illnesses resulting in cardiovascular and respiratory problems, skin conditions, poor vision, gastro-intestinal disturbances and nervous complaints.
POW’s emotional and behavioural changes impacted family dynamics and relationships with potential intergenerational consequences for their children’s health and longevity.
Marriages did break down.
How many men took their own lives? Some suicided in their 80’s.
Women had to navigate the emotional and practical difficulties of readjusting to life with their returned husbands, who were often changed by their experiences.
Their memories or nightmares would often return at night, and at unexpected times.
During the past years I have spoken with and shared intimate and tragic stories with wives, sons and daughters who have lived with emotional confusion and family trauma – never daring to talk openly, believing they were the only one.
Our men returned home broken and battered. In those early days many felt a sense of shame.
Were former POWs war heroes?
It took time for former POWs to adapt to his level of tolerance to such things as loud talking or a child screaming. Food was never wasted because he had seen men die of starvation. His children had no understanding.
Wives often took on all the responsibilities and obligations leading to their own emotional exhaustion and burnout. They made long-term adaptations to their own lives to accommodate their husband’s mood swings and irritability, often walking on eggshells. Never knowing when they said and or what they did may be misconstrued.
Australians generally did not know how to relate to their Japanese POWs. Families of returning POWs were advised by military authorities not to ask them about their experience, believing that not discussing it would help survivors put the experience behind them!
The Repatriation Commission felt at the time:
‘A POW should not be encouraged to regard himself as a palpably abnormal person, with a spirit scarred, a mind warped or a body weakened by his experiences.’
It was also thought that ex-POWs should not be made to feel ‘different’ from non-POW returned servicemen and women.
Many POW families lacked social or community support. There was little recognition, understanding or assistance from our government departments and little attention from the medical community until the 1980’s.
Suggestions to army chiefs these former POWs might need particular assistance was met with an extraordinarily unsympathetic response.
The men rarely talked or shared their story. They feared breaking down. They did not want to be seen as weak, especially in front of their sons. Families were isolated, and not necessarily geographically, it happened in downtown suburbia.
This isolation and at times absolute despair increased the family fragility. Consumption of alcohol did not help. Men were often unable to hold down jobs or work as they once had because of their numerous physical disabilities. The psychological and physical trauma experienced by Japanese POWs had significant and long-lasting effects on their wives and children.
We who were not there can never, ever have an understanding of the lives of POWs of Japan.
Today I invite you to recognise these unique and resiliant women, a small percentage of our population, who lived with quiet dignity, resolve and managed to navigate through the emotional and practical difficulties of their lives with former POWs whose memories and nightmares never left them.
Our generation must recognise our life experiences to live fulfilled lives.
I ask you to please take a few moments, look around – you are one of the 2/4th family, and we are quite unique! Grasp this moment – perhaps some of us or most of us, share long-term intergenerational effects of trauma.
There are no winners in war. War damages families and communities for generations
2/4TH MACHINE GUN BATTALION EX MEMBERS ASSOC (EST 1946)
80TH ANNIVERSARY OF V-J DAY
& LIBERATION OF POWS OF 2/4TH MGB
SUNDAY 10 AUGUST 2025
POW MEMORIAL, KINGS PARK
The morning began …..very wet.
Below: Jim Elliott (Jnr) son of Jim Elliott WX8619, Former President, Jim was recovered from Japan.
Above: Catafalque Party & Flag Raisers from 52 Army Cadet Unit Armadale under guidance Capt. Richard Henderson
Welcome by Tina Kyros, daughter of 2/4th’s WX10715 JACK KYROS. Jack was with ‘F’ Force, recovered from Singapore.
Readings – End of War
from book ‘Summer Will Come Again’, by WX14836 JOHN LANEread by his son Myles Ferguson
John Lane (formerly Ramsbottom) was recovered from Japan.
From book To ‘Hell-fire, Purgatory and Back’ The story of E Company, Major Albert Saggers WX3454 – was to be read by his son, Ian Saggers. Bert Saggers was with ‘H’ Force & recovered from Singapore.
Read by Jim Ridgwell, do to illness of Ian Sagger
‘A Tribute to the Wives of former POWs and their families’ by
Cheryl Mellor, daughter of ‘Cowboy ‘Matthews WX17000. Matthews was recovered from Japan.
Cheryl talked of the intergenerational trauma of former POWs passed onto their children and grandchildren. A topic rarely spoken of but one which we have all experienced.
Most importantly it was a tribute to the wives of POWS, our mothers, who were there always for their husbands.
Above: Harry Tysoe and Cheryl Mellor, dau of WX17000 ‘Cowboy’ Matthews
Above: Father Braden Short – grandson of William Short WX8693 & ‘the Man who kept the weather reasonably fine for us.’
Bill Short was recovered from Changi, Singapore – he had spent the entire war as a patient at Roberts Barracks due to extensive injuries received during Battle of Singapore.
BUGLER: DAVE SCOTT
Laying of Wreaths: RSLWA President, Duncan Anderson
Below: 2/4th Wreath by Cheryl Johnson, Secretary & Harry Tysoe President
Cheryl Johnson is daughter of WX8729 Ron Badock, who was recovered from French Indochina and Harry Tysoe is grandson of WX9226Harry Tysoe Snr. who died of illness as POW in Japan.
Above: Jim Elliott, son of Jim Elliott WX8619 Snr, Former President
Laying Rosemary:
Jim Ridgwell with rosemary and Cheryl Mellor. Jim is son of WX14197 Dick Ridgwell who was recovered from Thailand.
Below: Jackie and Tina Kyros, daughter of WX10715 JACK KYROS
Below: Children of Ruth James – Kathy, Leonie and Gordon.
Below: Barbara and Jan, daughters of the late WX8619 Jim Elliott, former President.
Above Patricia Bell daughter of WX6506 Eric Fraser who was recovered from Thailand.
Below: Lt Kim McVea Catafalque Party with Glenda James daughter of WX17634 Wally Holding. Wally was with ‘F’ Force and was recovered from Singapore.
Below: Betty Matthew representing WX 6262 ‘Bill’ Earnshaw of Kalgoorlie, who died Sandakan.
Below: William Temby from Margaret River Senior High School, was a student with Department of Education’s 2024 Premier’s Anzac Student Tour to Singapore last year. Thank you Will for attending our Service!
Above: Luke Tannock representing WX1943 Frank NOBLE who died Sandakan. Tannock is the creator of the 2/4th March from Northam to Perth.
Above: Barbara dau of Jim Elliott WX8619, Laurie Stewart from Qld, Geoff Hinkling, Yvonne Hinkling (sister of Allan Stewart m Jan Stewart dau of Jim Elliott. )
Above: Carol Farmer and family, dau of Ted Elliott WX5064 with “H’ Force and recovered from Singapore.
Above: Luke Tannock was responsible for the production of the ‘2/4 March from Northam” 1941 available on UTube.
Below: Ben Tannock
Below: Ben’s mother Carolyn Tannock representing WX9413 Frank Noble who died Sandakan.
Dave Coutts Donaldson, his wife Helen (nee Taylor) and their three children came to Western Australia from Scotland in 1906. In a short time they moved to the Goldfields where they had two further sons.
Initially Donaldson leased the Trafalgar Hotel, and within time he purchased the leasehold of the Boulder City Hotel which he thereafter managed for 20 years, and most successfully.
He was treasurer of the Boulder Racing Club for many years.
The eldest son enlisted in WW1. Tragically he was KIA 9 May at the Somme, France 1918.
It was after this tragedy Donaldson gifted the Boulder WW1 War Memorial to the community.
Dave Donaldson (Snr) was highly regarded within the community, a keen member of the RSL and always did his best for the soldiers. It was said all returned soldiers on the Goldfields knew of him and respected him. Donaldson always said the Australia’s soldiers had done right for us, and as such he would do right for them.
His first son died aged 18 years had enlisted underage. Named after his father, Private Dave Donaldson (Jnr) was KIA at the front 29 April 1918. He enlisted July 1916 with 11th Battalion Reinforcements. Young Dave celebrated his 17th birthday on the voyage to England.
He was a former student at the Boulder Central School and a member of senior Cadets. After leaving school Dave was employed at the Boulder Electric Light Station.
1918 • Villers-Bretonneux, Departement de la Somme, Picardie, France
Following his departure from Coolgardie, Dave Donaldson (snr) relocated to the city. He then built the Balmoral Hotel in Victoria Park, which he managed for several years before retiring.
On 29 August 1954 Dave and Helen Donaldson died at their home in West Perth. They were both 78 years old and were buried at Karrakatta. They left three sons and one daughter.
Below: Bruce and Helen Donaldson.
Below: Their son Private Dave Donaldson .
Above: Boulder City Hotel in later years – Harry Walker Publican
Bare-headed, with an open shirt and a bayoneted rifle, the digger at Boulder’s war memorial stands as a symbol for the Goldfields’ fallen.
Dave Donaldson’s Boulder City Hotel is no longer there, but the statue will forever look with a steely gaze at where it used to stand.
Mr Donaldson asked the statue be made hatless and with a partly unbuttoned shirt.
When plans were first discussed for the monument in 1916, initial plans were for it to be a soldier in full kit.
However, a change was requested by Mr Donaldson two years later.
The reason was because his son, also named David, was killed on May 9, 1918, at the age of 18, near Ypres in northern France.
When his comrades came to his aid, he was found without a helmet and the top buttons undone on his shirt.
He was buried hastily the next day on what was a moving battlefront.
The record of his death sent on to the Australian Government by his company commander stated:
“Pte Donaldson was killed instantaneously by a bullet through the heart during a night operation in the vicinity of Moolenacker on May 9, 1918.”
Above: Dave Donaldson and his wife Helen.
Below: in 1919 Dave Donaldson with his wife and children depart Boulder for a trip to England. Dave’s brother William is also travelling to England with them.
Below: 1929 Valedictory for Dave Donaldson.
Below: Boulder Race Course 1907
Below: Boulder Race Course 1925
Above: Boulder Race Course today – which holds about 20 meets per year.
Below: William Donaldson brother of Dave, died 26 Jan 1932.
Below: Death of Dave Donaldson & his wife on the same day in 1954.
Above: granddaughter Simone Thomas laid this wreathe at the Hellfire Pass service to honour and remember her grandfather WX8493 BERT NORTON and the men of the 2/4th MGB.
82 years earlier, Bert Norton arrived at Kanyu 2 to start work on the Burma-Thai Railway on 25 April 1943 with ‘D’ Force Thailand, S Battalion. Please read further.
Several former POW’s had family representatives attending the Anzac Day Service at Hellfire Pass, 25 April 2025.
WX17397 TOM PILMOOR’s granddaugdhter also attended the service.
WX17634 WALLY HOLDING’S son Ian and several grandchildren were also present.
Widows Gladys Cowie and Marion Matthews – Anzac Day March 2013
John Gilmour 2013 Anzac Day March
Rockingham Foreshore Dec 1988
50th Anniversary, Church Parade – St Georges Tce, 25 Nov 1990
Fairbridge 2001
2/4th Reunion, Fairbridge 2004 with Tom Pilmoor seated, others include Romeo Morris, Jim Elliott & Ron Badock.
If you or your family have photos of 2/4th on Anzac Day, marching or getting together after or at reunions, can you please send to us to share? email: 2nd4thmgb@gmail.com
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