From ’Coward’ to HERO

SECOND WORLD WAR WAR IN THE FAR EAST

Court-martialled and unjustly branded a coward, Irish-born Australian Dick Kelliher was determined to clear his name and prove his critics wrong. Steve Snelling tells how his chance came six months later during a bloody clash against Japanese troops fighting a desperate rearguard action in the bitter struggle for New Guinea.

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