Serving overseas, away from family and friends, is not easy. At times, such as Christmas, it's even more challenging. Click below to listen to a veteran share their experience of celebrating Christmas on deployment in Rwanda.
Transcript
I don't recall doing anything for Melbourne Cup, but we certainly did for Christmas. Like I said earlier, the cooks did a bit of a special spread. I think we ate plum pudding and fruitcake for about the rest of the six months after Christmas. The RSL had sent us just fruitcake after fruitcake, and it was fantastic ¬– but after, we had boxes and boxes of it. So we had fruitcake for lunch, dinner, breakfast almost!
We tried to make things special. People would send over Santa hats, things like that, so you'd wear them on the ward. But everything … we didn't shut down. We kept going.