"I knew Reg post Korean War. He was at Puckapunyal when I served there. I was serving with the Armoured Corps and Reg then was an instructor at 15 National Service battalion. He'd been reduced to the rank of lieutenant. The captaincy he'd earned in Korea was only a temporary promotion. I thought he was very badly treated by the Australian Army. A soldier of his quality could have been used in many better ways than he was and I'm sure that his colour had a lot to do with the way he was treated. There were officers who with far less talent than he had who in my belief treated him abominably and of course Reg left the Army and I think it was the Army's loss and not his."

SERGEANT JACK GALLAWAY, 'A MOVING FAREWELL'