Perth's champion post World War Two full-back, Syd Shaw, was among a select group of veterans in Canberra on October 29 to mark the 75th anniversary of the start of the Battle of El Alamein, where 220,000 Allied troops halted the advance of the German forces in North Africa.
He was with three West Australian veterans who were at the Australian War Memorial to remember their role in Hitler's first major defeat in the war Read More [+]