Warren Moxey remembers when the second World War ended. He was born at Williamtown and later came to Newcastle as a young lad to take an apprenticeship. He was 12 when the conflict came to an end, and he can remember commemorating the day and the hard years that had preceded it.
When he was 19, in 1953, he was conscripted into basic training with the Australian Army and was eventually added to the reserve list for the Korean War for three years.