Each year on 18 August, Vietnam Veterans’ Day and the anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan, Australians pause to...

Delta Company forward scout Private Allen May is most likely the man who fired the first shot in what was to become one...

Image: Allen May at the Australian War Memorial.

Image: 1969 - Erecting the first cross in the Long Tan plantation.

Caption: LTCOL (Ret) Harry Smith will be present when the new awards are announced.