Australian Visit, Arthur Frank.

After many years sending the Vly Club newsletter to our members,i have this summer met our member who lives in Australia,Arthur Frank who served with the battalion during the WW2 as a medic orderly,and was awarded the Military Medal for his bravery.Arthur after being wounded and sent back home for rehabitation and returned to the battalion to be among the troops to release prisoners at Belsen Concentration Camp,i have over the past few years spoken to Arthur on the telphone but have always,been to far away to meet him.
This year my hoilday plans took me to Melbourne, so a visit could take place,Jean and i were welcomed at their home at Stumpy Gully road,by Arthur and his wife Joyce,who he first met in 1939,when she was 16,.Joyce served in the Air Force in the accounts department,and they married on June 20th 1945. This year 2005 they celibrated their Diamond wedding anniversary.
They emigrated to Australia in July 1948,and Arthur worked in a nursery,before moving to Bittern and a job at the naval depot H M A S Cerbrus,Arthur was head gardener at the base when he retired.
Arthur and Joyce would love to here from any of his old comrades who knew him from his Wiltshire Regiment days.
Jeff Matthews.