More than 80 years after playing their part in one of the most defiant campaigns of World War II, an unheralded contingent of Diggers are finally receiving deserved recognition.
The servicemen, members of the 1 Australian Railway Construction Company, were placed under British command in early 1941 and spent the ensuing months helping forge the legend of the Rats of Tobruk.
Virtually nothing was known of their whereabouts during the city's famed siege, however, until a recent query by a relative of one of the nine or possibly 10 men concerning his status as a participant.
