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| Originally Posted by Dinger Look at Laba in Mirbat 1972, now that man should have got the VC but got nothing at all. We need a balance. |
Aye, some guy he was too. I know guys who were on the 'Ops Claret' in Malaya/Borneo who knew him before he joined the Regiment - pure warrior class, as are most of the Fijians who come across. Operating a 25-pounder artillery piece on his jack (normally a three-man task): Laba-laba actually got the MM, albeit postumously, but I see what you mean mate. Trooper Tobin, on the other hand, after havng his jaw completely shot away, didn't die as a result of the action - he was to die later in a services hospital in the UK, after a piece of tooth made its way down into his lungs and became infected - the infection was what killed him.
Mirbat - you couldn't write fiction like it! 8 guys verses 400+ adoo.