WELCOME TO OUR RECOGNITION OF RCB CAMPAIGN
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In a nutshell our campaign is to have the Rifle Company Butterworth (RCB)’s service recognised as warlike. The Government, despite the facts discovered since its original decision, says its non-warlike service similar to peacetime garrison duty in Australia.
We have provided evidence of a deception that has denied 9,000 Australian troops and their families certain entitlements to repatriation benefits.
In 1970 RCB was deployed to protect the RAAF assets (aircraft, facilities, servicemen and women and their families) at the Air Base Butterworth Malaysia from 1970 to 1989 at the time when Malaysia was fighting its Counter Insurgency War (1968-1989) against the resurgent communist terrorists.
DHAAT Report – Inquiry into Medallic Recognition for Service with RCB
Read the Report We are analysing its contents (close to 300 pages) before making a formal response to it In the meantime this article by Charles Miranda ‘Tribunal defines ‘war and peace’ for Australian Defence Force ...’ was printed in today's Daily Telegraph. Ray...
RCB Update – DHAAT Second Hearing 3-4 April 2023
The second hearing for the Tribunal’s inquiry into medallic recognition for service with Rifle Company Butterworth will be held in Brisbane on Monday and Tuesday at the Royal On The Park 152 Alice Street. It will be livestreamed from the Tribunal's...
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DHAAT – RCB Update: Advance to Contact
Recall the DHAAT Tribunal Hearing video on the 23 November 2022 and the access to all submissions. And note the critical reporting by News Limited media's Charles Miranda titled ADF defend pretext to war for 9000 veterans and the Channel 9 TV Program A Current...
AUSTRALIA DAY 2023 – Proud of our Country and our Flag
The Seeker’s inspired us all then and still do today with their iconic hit song “I am Australian” Enjoy the day, and despite the various daily challenges in our home, work, and social lives; celebrate our unique way of life, away from the world’s many conflicts...
Opinion: A New Ally Looms for Deserving Veterans
AUSTRALIA’S enduring relationship with the Malaysian Kingdom, forged through decades of war and peace remains largely unknown and unremarked in our national consciousness. Yet generations of Australian servicemen and women have served there, while thousands gave...
A Current Affair – War Veterans Battle for Recognition 30 years on
In tonight's TV Channel 9 programme A Current Affair, in the third item Ray Fulcher and Graeme Mickleberg outline the RCB claim for warlike service which is based on irrefutable evidence discovered in their search for the truth See the program video here Note it is...
RCB Recognition of Service – on TV Channel 9: A Current Affair at 7.00 pm Tuesday 20 December 2022
The video of the first Hearing of the Defence Honours and Awards Tribunal and the Report of it by Charles Miranda has aroused the Australian public's interest in this David and Goliath like struggle, now in its 17th year, of the RCB veterans challenge to Defence to...
Malaysia: Cherishing our hard won peace 33 years after the end of the communist insurgency
This article by Raymond Goh captures the history of Communist activities in Malaya/Malaysia from the end of the Second World War in 1945 until the end of the insurgency in 1989, Of importance to RCB veterans is the reporting of the "Second" Emergency in the context of...