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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.
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...
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...
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...
See the video here Current submissions can be seen here The Tribunal has allowed additional submissions before the next Hearing in early 2023
THE HOME FRONT documentary by Patrick Lindsay explores the plight of Australia’s modern war veterans, taking viewers on a journey of discovery into a world all too often filled with darkness, depression, PTSD, homelessness and suicide. The film allows our...
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...
The first hearing for the Tribunal’s inquiry into medallic recognition for service with Rifle Company Butterworth will be held in Canberra this week. It will be livestreamed from our website https://defence-honours-tribunal.gov.au from 9.30 on Wednesday. At around...
This article appeared in the Editorial of The Sydney Saturday Telegraph 22 October 2022 RCB-This-Must-be-Fixed-Download
At last a national media organisation, News Limited media's Charles Miranda, has exposed publicly in the Courier Mail and the Townsville Bulletin the facts of the Australian Army's Rifle Company Butterworth deployments (1970-1989) to protect the RAAF assets...
With three explosive sentences, Australian War Memorial Council chairman Brendan Nelson has unleashed a fierce culture war over how best to exhibit the history of frontier violence. READ MORE After reading the article you may want to consider the petition organised...