Sorry
212 and others, was trapping rabbits down another burrow.
Not unusual, as in it does happen, in Oz though for folk to have medals/awards granted or upgraded long after the events if a case is put forward. The gentlemen certainly has a profile.
We have a chap who folk were putting forward for a VC some three decades or so after the events, the US had granted him a Silver Star that our government refused to let him accept, not told he was supposed to be attending a parade at which General Westmoreland was to present it to him, he finally did have it presented decades later by the Commander of a US warship visiting during an exercise.
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