Lets remember them again this xmas.

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DescriptionBill Hopkins, Jack Kelly, Gus Brown, Jack Heremia, Charles Upham, Lew Tuck, and Dave Kirk.Contributor Moe Bowes

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PersonBill Hopkins Jack KellyGus BrownJack HeramiaCharles UphamLew TuckDave Kirk

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CommentsDavid Honey
Charles Upham VC being held on the arm

Denis Ian Skates
David Honey And bar.

Lyn N Moe
Bill Hopkins, Jack Kelly, Gus Brown, Jack Heremia, Charles Upham, Lew Tuck, and Dave Kirk.

Lyn N Moe
Jakh Heremia I remember we would go out to Taramakau when I started drinking,Jack would often be there with Marie. I think Jack might of talked about being a tennis player when young. When the Railway boys had the bridge closed for sandblasting Pat Gr… See More

Jakh Heremia
Yes, my Dad was a very good Tennis Player and when they first arrived in Camerons, following the closing of the Nelson rail link, he coached at the Paroa Tennis club. Mum and Dad on my wedding day 1973
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Jeffrey Marshall
My Great Uncle Gus. Lived with Nanna (Elsie) Sowerby on Herd street Dunollie. Wish I knew him longer.

Trish Rennie
I knew dear Gus Brown too...my mother and father had the Dunollie Store and I went to school with Carol....lovely people from my childhood.

Jeffrey Marshall
Trish Rennie carol is my mum. I used to walk to the shop and buy nana cigarettes when I was 6. Different times back then.

Dennis Andrew
I remember Jack Heramia drinking at the Tramway Tavern in the 70’s when I was a kid. He was a nice old bloke.

Jakh Heremia
Dennis Andrew Heremia.

Jakh Heremia
He had his own place at the bar and a personal 'pint' courtesy of Pat Griffen (Gladstone).

Tony Brunt
Also interesting to see Dave Kirk, who I believe performed heroic deeds alongside Upham in the tumultuous fighting on Crete.

David Honey
Tony Brunt He did indeed, won the DCM (second only to the VC) alongside Upham, who rated him as the best combat soldier he served with.

Tony Brunt
The "best combat soldier," David. Remarkable stuff.

Jakh Heremia
Pvte Kahupu Lionel Heremia 28th Maori Battalion. (Jack).

Ian Murch
Charles Upham the only man to win two v.c.s andstill be aliveMike Minehan
Brave men all, and a joy that they were able to meet here so many years later. No one can probably imagine what they had lived through and then lived with all that time. We baby boomers, the generation that didn´t "have to go". Forever grateful.
Ivan Murray Wilson
Mike Minehan Well said.
Alan Messenger
Remember Gus, great man
Lewis Williams
Gill Peters
Gus Brown lived opposite us in Blaketown. When we came home from school in the afternoon he was standing on their verandah having a smoke after a shift down the mine. He wore a black singlet and we could see a big scar where a bullet had hit him. They were real hero's.
Sonia Dando
Gill Peters I live couple of doors from Gus Brown always had a chat to and from walking to school if he were about two others lived in the house can’t remember who now long time ago
Alan Pegley
Great photo thanks
Patrick Beban
Gus was my wife’s Olive Key Beban god father. Very generous to his friend Fred Key and his family at 125 Blake Street.

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