Rusty says: "The dog I trained in the photo was Cicero but he was taken off me 2 weeks before I left for Vietnam because the Army decided that we could take over Tracker Dogs already there. I was to take over Julian."

The photo above shows Bill Hoban's Platoon Anti Tank and Combat Trackers a week prior to embarkment to Vietnam. One missing is Bill - not sure why he wasn't there that day at Enoggera. Rusty says: "Bill Hoban's was my Platoon Sgt in Vietnam, I can see him now yelling in our first firefight, he pulled me back when we hit a bunker system and lost our first rifleman. What a nice bloke, I wrote a poem when he left us. He come to me on the 29 Nov 69 and said, 'Its your birthday - your 21, so take the day off.' He was in so many wars." Rusty's poem: "Thinking back at this point of time - Eight Diggers died by booby-trap and mine - Twenty eighth of February taken away - Remembered by Trackers to this very day - Sergeant Hoban the Trackers remember - Arrived in Vietnam the month November - Such a fine man we all had ever seen - Straight and calm tall and lean - A soldiers life and a job well done - At Christmas his Diggers received coffee and rum - Remembered by family and of his men - Our Sergeant a hero Bill Hoban awarded the B.E.M"

List of the members of the 8th Battalion killed in Malaysia 1967/69 and Vietnam 1969/70. Shown at Regimental Square, Sydney. Included is "15400 SGT W.J. Hoban BEM 28 February 1970" Lest We Forget...