Running time
42 sec
Copyright
Department of Veterans' Affairs
Transcript
So Christmas, because we were over Christmas period when we were there. We had the traditional Christmas put on by the BHQ but that was up in Balibo, so near where the four Australian journalists were murdered in Balibo House. We established a headquarters in the fort there, at Balibo Fort or the battalion did, the Second Battalion. So they put on, they had the cooks and a kitchen, so they put on a Christmas feed.
We sort of rotated patrols up there and had a Christmas feed. Mind you, my hair was out here because we hadn't had a haircut in five months. So we, yeah, went up had a Christmas feed and then went back out, back down to Marko and had our little area and stayed in for the rest of the time until we went back.
