Veterans at the Anzac Day lunch following the Sydney march in 2011. Left to right standing were:
Ray Gibson, John Goldsmith, Joe Wilcher, Bert Jourdain, Doug Pleace, Doug Hancock, Ken Walters and Harry Low.
Basil Langley was standing at the back right behind Ken Walters. Seated (left to right) were Ron Bean, Murray Sweetapple, Ian King and Doug Wylie. Photo: John Heckenberg
25th Brigade reunion, Rockhampton, 1981.
Rear: H.J. Broome, Clyde Knudsen, Bill Innes, Norm Rose, Tom Simpson, Fred Martin, Bob McLucas, Jack Croft,
Dug Cullen, Jim Cowan, Lionel Tidbury, Bill McDowall .
Front: Lew Curran, Viv Phipps, Bill Crooks, Ted Stollznow, Leo Housego, Arch Blyth.
Rear (left to right) Ken Walters, Ian “Snowy” King, Doug Wylie, unknown, Bert Jourdain, unknown, unknown.
Front (left to right): Unknown, Murray Sweetapple. Doug Pleace, Ray Gibson, Bill Reeves, Ron Bean, Jimmy Dowling, Gerald Worthington.
Photographed in 2008 after laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Ray Gibson and Phil Curry.
Wartime and civilian mates VX13089 James Kemp, SX17638 Willliam Lithgow and NX32658 Phil Curry at a Canberra reunion in 1975. Jim Kemp, a 2/33rd original, was commissioned in the fieldurng the Kokoda campaign. Both he and Phil Curry became captains before the invasion of Balikpapan, where Phil was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry
LISMORE REUNION, MAY, 1996
Back row: Jack Mallen, Dug Cullen, John Nugent, Tom Twentyman, Jim Laing, Stan Rixon, John O’Neill, Ron Dark, Lindsay Smith, Gordon Burton, Phil Curry, Wal Asprey, Bill Lithgow, Murray Sweetapple.
Front row: Cliff Ramsey, Bert Jourdain, Bernie Scanlan, John Costello, Merv Roberts, Merv O’Connor. Seated: Doug Pleace
Attending a reunion dinner at Adamstown, Newcastle, on August 8, 1989, were (left to right) Jimmy Lindsay, Fred Weekes, Colin Smith, Ken Walters, Ray Wright, Bruce Stevens and George Jones.
The 2/33rd Battalion Association President, Phil Curry, and is wife Joan, in the blue dress, after a wreath laying at a Bathurst reunion, Armistice Day 1989. Next (left to right) are Marcia Bonham, Gordon Beardmore and Harry Bonham.
Phil Curry with the wreath before the laying ceremony at Bathurst, Armistice Day, 1989.
Gordon Beardmore at the Bathurst reunion, Armistice Day, 1989.
Dr Geoff Mutton, the former Regimental Medical Officer at the Bathurst reunion, Armistice Day, 1989.
Jimmy Laing, Doug Wylie and Pat Maloney at a Battalion reunion dinner in 2007.
Back ( left to right) : Doug Hancock, Ron Bean and Ian “Snowy” King.
Front (left to right): Bert Jourdain, Doug Pleace and Ray Gibson.
Photographed at a Battalion reunion.
2/33rd Battalion Member NX22378 Reg “Possum” Goodger (left) with his brother Charles, who won a Military Cross serving with the 5th Division. They were two of 12 children who were raised at Ulmarra, near Grafton.