ANZAC HEROES TRAPPED IN THE JUNGLE
Apr 13, 2022
3 minutes
AS TOLD TO EMMA LEVETT
Tom Trumble, 41, Melbourne, Vic
The moon shone down on a blackened ocean.
Enormous waves crashed onto the shore where 31 Australian men huddled together, looking into the darkness, eyes glazed with exhaustion and defeat.
Behind them, in the West Timor jungle, 300 Japanese soldiers were hunting them down. After 58 days of running, the Australians, one of whom was my 24-year-old grandfather Bryan Rofe, had all but given up.
Suffering from malaria, dengue fever, dysentery and tropical ulcers, most
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