Less than five years after WWII, on June 25, 1950, North Korean forces invaded South Korea, starting the Korean War.
Australian troops played a pivotal role throughout the conflict, particularly in defending the fall of Seoul in 1951 in the Battle of Kapyong.
When those who survived returned home, they did not receive the hero’s welcome of WWI and WWII veterans.
"When I first came home and took the uniform off … no one knew I’d even been to Korea," he said.
"That happened to a lot of us."
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