“We Shall Remember”
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In Memory of Bulolo Valley’s War Dead
1N an impressive ceremony, (fn January 8, before a large gathering, at Bulolo, New Guinea, Dr. C. E. M.
Gunther (president of the Bulolo sub branch of the RSL) unveiled a memorial (a granite cairn) in honour of the men of the Bulolo Valley who died in the war of 1939-45. Dr. Gunther said they re membered them, not only as soldiers who gave their lives, but also as good friends and companions. The names, inscribed on a bronze plaque on the monument, are: Frank Anderson Bill McDonald Charley Duchatel Doug Phillips Tom Huxley Phil Tuckey Harry Lumb Jack Doran Squibbs O'Reilly Brian Fraser Frank Thomas Dick Lapham Lenn Bayliss Perce McKee Jack Goodwin Ron Smith Cam Irvine Dick Vernon Coupled with these are the names of four others who died there: Dick Gren vold, Bernard Creaswell, Sparrow Clel land, and Dusty McCallum.
The president recited the memorial verse: They shall not grow old as we who are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning.
We shall remember them.
The gathering responded: “We shall remember them!”