Vietnam Campaign Medal - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

When Richard Barry OAM was conscripted into the Army in 1967, he didn’t ask about medals. Like many young men called up under the National Service scheme, he accepted his orders, trained in jungle warfare and served alongside regular soldiers in the chaos of Vietnam. “We did our lawful duty honourably,” he explains. “But unlike others, we were never fully recognised.” More than half a century later, Barry is the public face of a renewed campaign to correct what he and many others see as a deep i

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