Gallery
Left: Sapper Ian Busst shortly before disbarkation in Melbourne, April, 1940.
Below: The "Million Dollar Convoy" approaching Sierra Leone.
Below: Ian Busst backing up his opponent in the ring aboard the RMS Otranto.
Right: Trading with the locals of Mersa Matruh, Egypt.
Below: The Daimler Scout Car or ‘Dingo’, a British light four-wheel drivereconnaissance vehicle that could go 55 mph forward and in reverse.
Left: Ian poses in front of a mural painted by Private John leslie ‘Doc’ Dawes on the walls of Ospedale da Campo Fimarina, near Tobruk, Libya.
Below: The burnt out shell of the Sparviero (‘sparrow hawk’) that Ian brought down.
Left: Lieutenant William "Bill" Roach.
Right: Brigadier Robert Risson
Below Right: Ian Busst on his BSA Despatch Bike. Near Alexandria, Egypt.
Below: The 2/3rd Field Company. Ian sits second row, far right.
Left: A drawing by ex-POW Corporal Fred Anderson, who was captured in the Wadi-el-Fedeh in 1941, lists the names of Section 7 of the 2/3rd Field Company.
Below: Campo 57, Grupignano, Italy.
Below Left: Benghazi, Libya, in February 1941, a few weeks after it was won by the Allies.
Left: Ian Busst in Labour Camp AK3785, Munich, Germany, the day after its liberation, May, 1945.
Right: Ian Busst, Anzac Day 2013, Melbourne, Australia.
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