by SuperAdmin | Nov 29, 2023 | Story
I was conscripted in the first intake of 1965 but deferred until 2 February 1966 to complete my first year of teaching. The children’s year was not disrupted but my part-time psychology studies certainly were as my ambition was to become an educational psychologist....
by SuperAdmin | Dec 22, 2022 | Story
STORY – ROD M – A Conscientious Objector’s National Service BACKGROUND A person’s teenage years are when they are feeling their way in the world and establishing their beliefs and moral compass, I was no different. I was sorting my own moral response to...
by SuperAdmin | Oct 14, 2022 | Yarns & Jokes
What a change in life for a young bloke being taken from his everyday enviourement and thrown into Dads Army. Why do I refer to the conscription period in 1965 of the Australian Army as Dads Army, well you may ask? The first intake of National Servicemen arrived with...
by SuperAdmin | Oct 14, 2022 | Yarns & Jokes
4/ 71 Intake at the Victorian Resort of Puckapunyal. It must have been day 2 when they marched us into one of those dome tin huts to get issued with our greens. I am first in line and front up to a wire mesh screen with a barking dog demanding ” what side do I...
by SuperAdmin | Aug 17, 2022 | Story
A marble with a number attached – little did I know at the time that such a small object would have had such massive ramifications on the rest of my life. My life changed forever in 1967 when I received a letter informing me that I had been called for National...
