"I was at this Pinios Gorge thing, when we, we were under attack, frontal attack to us, sort of thing. And the cry went out that a body had been hit. So I just raced down and got him, and brought him out. It wasn't too easy, shots flying everywhere and all this sort of jazz. Got him on a truck and hopefully get him off to hospital, which he did, I mean, but he died soon after he arrived, got into hospital."

"This, this is one of the reasons when you're making an attack, you can't stop for the man that's hit. Because half the time it's a forlorn hope and you're only risking your own life for nothing. Because your bearers and that are coming up behind you - they look after that. But in the case, when you're in the front and they're all moving back, you've got to, someone's got to do something - so it just automatically goes that you look after your mate.

"He was unlucky, you were lucky - that's how it goes".

PRIVATE BILL SMITH