"The 4th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment was in Borneo in 1966. I was a company commander at first on a base just near the Indonesian border and later on I went as battalion second in command. Our operations at the time were that we were still sending some cross border operations, very secretive at the time across into Indonesian territory. We were limited to about 10,000 metres. It was a very delicate time because at times we were hearing the Malaysians and the Indonesians were in a peace process and constantly the orders were changing and in the middle of it the Indonesians actually sent people on our side of the border, they were particularly trying to contact the Chinese communist organisation in the villages to our rear and at one stage our battalion was very successful in cutting off some of these enemy in ambushes."

LIEUTENANT CLAUDE DUCKER