Notes:

The 2d Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment rotated back to Petawawa in April 1952.  Later that year, at the age of thirty-one, Dick figured it was time to get out of the service, assuming he would not rise above non-commissioned officer, and find a useful trade.  If he was too old to enter into the union as a bricklayer, he intended to head west for the oil industry in Alberta.   He eventually found work as a welder, but left Canada to return to his home in Australia where he lived the remainder of his life in Queensland.  He did not marry but had a relationship for fifty years, with a lady who called him her gardener. Her grandchildren were unaware that this lovely man was her partner. There was a huge problem when he died. His fortune was basically stolen by a manipulative grandchild of the partner. 

[1]: Having no reliable records of the Jungle Training Detachment until months later, the original six members under Graves are unrecorded and only by comparing personnel files is it possible to surmise who the original detachment consisted of.  Only the sixth man, Edwards, is not listed on the roster and was unknown to the author until a chance sighting in US Army Morning Reports.  Aside from Graves as the commanding officer, the five known other ranks who joined all follow the same duty assignments, detachments and attachments from the time when the detachment was formed.  These are all written in the same hand on the same dates and personal notes from post war years provide further evidence of these early days in the “JTD”.

[2]: The Lieutenant became well known for facing off with a Chinese soldier when his pistol jammed and he drew his flare gun to kill him.  When that was shot out of his hand, he picked up a Burp gun for the rest of the fight.

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