Further to our last Update (3 October 2024), our Team (Ray Fulcher, Stan Hannaford, Graeme Mickelberg, Peter Kelly and Sean Arthur) met with Minister Keogh by invitation on 10 October 2024 at Parliament House Canberra. Unfortunately, the meeting was interrupted by the...
WELCOME TO OUR RECOGNITION OF RCB CAMPAIGN
Hello and thanks for visiting.
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.
RCB Update – 3 October 2024
We can now report the latest information on our claim's progress. Following from our 5 June 2024 letter to Keogh, we finally received his response agreeing to a meeting with us in Canberra at Parliament House on Thursday 10th October 2024 at 10 am. I will lead our...
RCB Update June 2024 – The End Game?
This is a progress report of developments since the DHAAT Report 22 August 2023 was presented to the Defence Personnel Minister The Hon. Matt Keogh and publicly released. We were concerned because the claimants were not given a copy of the Report before its public...
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...
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...
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...
RCB: DHAAT Hearing 23 November 2022 – Video
See the video here Current submissions can be seen here The Tribunal has allowed additional submissions before the next Hearing in early 2023
ADF defend pretext to war for 9000 veterans
News Limited media's Charles Miranda reports that Defence has copped a battering over how and why it sent 9000 troops to Malaysia during a Communist terrorist insurgency more than 30 years ago with serious implications for future deployments today. The Defence Honours...