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in 1962, when I was 17, I joined the 4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse, out of North Carlton I think it was, and I was with them for two years as a trooper and they initially taught me to become a gunner in a Staghound armoured car which is a 13-ton thing on four wheels. And after that, they taught me to be a truck driver. And in the second year, I was taught to be a Ferret Scout Car driver then I had to leave the CMF because I was posted to Mansfield as a junior teacher.
I did most of the year at Mansfield and then, eventually, I got a one teacher school at Emu which is about 60 miles west of Bendigo and met a chap there who was part of the infantry platoon in Maryborough which was attached to Ballarat (2RVR). So there I go, again, and then I moved schools closer to Ballarat. So instead of going to Maryborough for night parades, I'd go to Ballarat. Two and a half years with them and then into the regular army.
