There is a fine line to tread on Anzac Day: Clyde Rathbone

By Clyde Rathbone
Updated April 25 2014 - 5:18pm, first published 3:49pm

“Suddenly I was thrown up into the air, landing on the deck with a petty officer on top of me. I said to him: 'my back is broken.' He looked around, then remarked: 'all we need is a tot of rum.' 'Good idea,' said I. ‘Wait until I find my pipe’. We found it, and the rum, too; also my back was not broken, only bruised.”

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