The Return of a Private by Hamlin Garland voanews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from voanews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Bob Smith served his country with bravery in the US Army from 1968 to 1970 as a private in the Vietnam War.
Private Smith grew up in Abington and went to basic training at Fort Polk, Louisiana, where he endured the rigorous training that would prepare him for the jungles of Southeast Asia. Private Smith was sent to Vietnam in May 1968.
âWe flew to Ben Wah in the middle of the night. I was assigned to a company of infantry-trained soldiers which was part of the 1st Cavalry Division,â he remembered. âI was in Vietnam just a day and we got ambushedâ¦hit and runâ¦all the time, hit and runâ¦the NVA [North Vietnamese Army] was relentless,â he recalled.
Medal returned after nearly a century lost baysidenews.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from baysidenews.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
WWI medal lost on a Melbourne beach in 1925 returned to soldierâs family
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A war medal lost by a soldier at a beach in Melbourneâs south-east in 1925 has been returned to the manâs descendants almost a century later in the lead-up to Anzac Day.
The British Victory medal was owned by Private Robert Stanley Gordon Smith, who served in France during the First World War, and was lost on Chelsea beach in 1925.
In 1980, this WW1 British Victory medal was located at Beaumaris beach.
Private R.S.G. Smith s WWI British Victory medal.
News by Jack Paynter 23rd Apr 2021 10:39 AM A war medal lost at a Melbourne beach almost 100 years ago has been reunited with the family of a World War I digger just in time for Anzac Day. Private R.S.G. Smith lost his WWI British Victory medal at Chelsea beach in 1925 and passed away on April 23, 1963 without ever getting it back. The medal was found about 10km away at Beaumaris beach in 1980, but it s rightful owner remained a mystery until it was recently passed to Lilydale police Sergeant Vaughan Atherton. The man who found the medal 40 years ago was married at the time but later passed away, and his wife later remarried.