The last Australian commando to serve in Timor in WW2, Jim Elwood, died last December, short of his 100th birthday. Recently , the last Timorese to serve with Australian commandos, Cancio dos Reis Noronha , fourth from the left in the above photo, died at the age of 98.
With his brother Bernadino, second from the left, and other Timorese, he was selected for Z Special Force training on Fraser Island and in Cairns ,Queensland, and Richmond , NSW.
