We meet again, Ma’am...
A VETERAN decorated by the Queen for heroism in the Korean War has been reunited with Her Majesty 58 years later.
Arthur Pembroke, 83, from Sydney, who received a Military Cross in 1953, met the Queen again yesterday when she presented new colours to Royal Military College Duntroon in Canberra.
He spoke to the Queen at a garden party after watching his granddaughter Harriet, 26, take part in the ceremony. A staff cadet, she will graduate in December into the Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps from Duntroon, where her grandfather also trained.
Known as Bushy, Mr Pembroke won his MC as a lieutenant with the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, when he led his men through six days of fighting, captured a piece of high ground and held it for 48 hours against a fierce Chinese counterattack.
Commenting on Her Majesty’s tour of Australia at the age of 85 with the Duke of Edinburgh, now 90, Mr Pembroke said: “She impressed me a great deal.
“Her dedication and determination to carry out her duty, I think, is the sort of thing we have always admired.”
When Harriet was asked what had worried her more, marching in front of the Queen or her grandfather, she said: “I have to be diplomatic here. When I was doing the march past the Queen, I was nervous that Her Majesty was here.
“When I was marching towards where Bushy was sitting, I put some extra drive into it.”