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2RTB March 1968
Poet-at-Arms 1968: 'The minstrel boy to the war has gone...'
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2RTB March 1968
TD and accomplices cleverly concealed by bushes at 2RTB in Puckapunyal
during recruit training. 'They'll never find us here, lads!'
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2RTB April 1968
L to R: John Boothby, John Dries, TD, John Grubb. Terry kept his (strictly
non-regulation) guitar hidden away up in the roof of the hut. The NCOs would
come in and say: 'Recruit Dowling, get that guitar down and give us a song!' The
platoon song was TD's lyrics to the tune of 'Botany Bay.' It always helped to
have a sense of irony.
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3TB May 1968
Nigel Tanner and Terry turn out a song in the D Company hut at 3TB in
Singleton. These were vivid and fertile days. The whole Singleton experience
would later form the basis of Terry's linked collection, Blackwater Days.
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F-Troop July 1968
Terry (second from right) as a member of 3TB's very own F Company.
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3TB Staff 1969
School photo military style. Terry is back left. Shrewd lad that he was, he
worked with the only seven women in the battalion. Think M*A*S*H with Aussie
accents!
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