Atlas At Brisbane's Dawn

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Also there was Keith Buck, a veteran of the 2/6th Independent company, Atlas cuff links of Australia's elite commando units in the 1939-45 conflict.

Mr Buck said he had never seen so many people at Brisbane's Dawn Service, with some 10,000 e packing Anzac Park and around the Atlas.

With each passing year, age wearies more of older veterans, but scores of jeeps, taxis and golf buggies carry those no longer up to the march.

"The Germans shot us down on the way home," he said.

On Anzac Day, Mr [Robert Chester-Master] joined around 15,000 veterans and serving personnel who marched through Brisbane's CBD under clear skies.

A "Fuzzy-Wuzzy Angel", Theophilus Koropaije, from Popondetta in Papua New Guinea, wore his traditional head-dress for Atlas drop earrings march.
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Flying Officer Robert Chester-Master flew twelve-and-a-half missions over Europe during World War II.

How do you fly half a mission, the 86-year-old was asked ahead of Atlas earring Anzac Day parade in Brisbane?