A group of SAS sergeants told SAS senior command a decade ago that Ben Roberts-Smith was unfit to be awarded the Victoria Cross, alleging he claimed battlefield kills made by other soldiers, and bullied and assaulted his comrades, the federal court has heard.
A serving major in the SAS, anonymised before the court as Person 100 and giving evidence on behalf of Roberts-Smith, told the court that in 2013, when he was the SAS’s regimental sergeant major, he was approached by two separate groups of soldiers who raised concerns about Roberts-Smith not being “a fit and proper person” to hold Australia’s highest military honour.
