Shipping Reporter Special
Part of the Anzac Memorial Park on Townsville's waterfront includes the Heroes' Walk , which you would expect to be kept in pristine condition . However , an inspection of the site revealed this is not the case .
There are 12 surrounding plinths featuring Australian Victoria Cross winners from the Pacific- Asian Campaign of WWll , placed there during the Victory in the Pacific 50th Commemoration Celebrations , August l995 .
Examine the faces of these brave men and you find that some of the plinths are in need of a clean due to bird of bat droppings .
Take the case of Lieutenant -Colonel Charles Groves Wright Anderson who during a fighting withdrawal in Malaya in 1942 led Australians , singing Waltzing Matilda , personally put out of action two machine gun posts, before being captured . Splat next to his name .
There is another splat on Lieutenant Albert Chowne who at Dagua , New Guinea , in 1945 took out two machine guns with grenades then, firing a sub-machine gun from the hip, was killed standing over three enemy foxholes .
A black blob is evident in the details of Flight Lieutenant William Ellis Newton who after 10 months of active flying missions was shot down and executed by the Japanese .
