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I Was Only Doing My Job
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Kokoda Trail Commemorative walkway within the Canberra Remembrance Nature Park.

The trail head is located in Remembrance Park at the rear of the Australian War Memorial and contains excellent interpretation material on its New Guinea name sake including a 3D bronze relief providing background. In addition a series of plaques line the trail up to the summit providing information on key sites. With a couple of small exceptions this trail has a hard constructed surface which for most of the first half of the trail consists of a series of switch backs.

Lest we forget.

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“There and Back Again” Corporal Leslie Charles”Bull” Allen MM USS (D-2/5Btn 2AIF) 30-JULY-1943

Posted on August 13, 2021July 31, 2023 By Docwinters
“There and Back Again” Corporal Leslie Charles”Bull” Allen MM USS (D-2/5Btn 2AIF) 30-JULY-1943
I Was Only Doing My Job, Podcast, Transcripts

30-JULY-1943 Serving as a Stretcher Bearer in the 2/5th Infantry Battalion Second Australian Imperial Force, Cpl Leslie “Bull” Allen would participate in the Battle of Mount Tambu, and assist forces of the 1st Battalion, 162nd Infantry Regiment, US Army. with casualties rising, and both US medics killed, Bull Allen would voluntarily walk into the battlespace and recover between ten and seventeen wounded American soldiers.

He would carry them one after another on his back, only stopping when he physically couldn’t continue, and for his actions, he would receive the United States Silver Star, the third-highest medal of Bravery, and the highest that could be awarded to a non-US citizen.

When asked of his gallant deeds during the Second World War, this Gentle Giant would simply say. “I was only doing my job.”

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