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Horrie getting his first bath from Moody after being found in the Libyan desert.

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Bill Shegog with the shield he painted for B Co. to decorate the Officers mess.

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Horrie receives his winter uniform.

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Horrie supervises Moody digging a trench. Later, the dog dropped a big bone in it, thinking that this was its purpose.

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Horrie is bemused by music coming from a portable army wireless set.

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Aboard the HMAS Defender after being rescued from the bombed and stricken troopship Costa Rica, 27 April 1942.

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Horrie and some of his friends in Crete. Standing (l to r) Feathers, Friday Mills, Don Gill. Kneeling (l to r) Murchie, Moody, Arch (later killed), Poppa Brooker, Bash (later killed) and Blue Lyburn.

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Horrie howling along with Moody on the mouth-organ at Khassa, Palestine (Israel).

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Horrie in Syria on the toboggan built for him.

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Horrie in the Vichy tank found on his hunting trip in Syria with Moody and Gill.

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1941. Tiberias. Palestine. Horrie starts on a desert journey.

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Horrie in his ‘uniform’. It was made for him to beat the cold in Syria.

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The stern of the West Point, carrying the American flag. This converted liner took the 2/1 Machine Gun Battalion from the Middle East back to Australia.

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Horrie at the Australian Soldiers Club Tel Aviv. The diggers include Rebels, Fitzsimmons (second from left), and next to him, Harlor and Gill.

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A 2/1 Machine Gunners doing guard duty with Horrie.

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Imshi. She was the 2/1 Anti -Tank Regiment’s mascot and Horrie’s companion in the Middle East.

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Horrie and Jim Moody on top of a Syrian mountain. The Lebanon Valley is beyond them.

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Horrie is in this pack on Don Gill’s back when they were about to board West Point which would take them to Australia. Moody took the picture and stayed close, encouraging Horrie to remain still and quiet.

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Some of the Rebels with Horrie in Syria playing keepings-off game, which he initiated to keep him warm.

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Horrie, Don Gill and Moodie in Tel Aviv, 14 February.

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At Zubaydat, Aussies and locals playing two-up.

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Horrie resting beneath the aft gun on Lossiebank during evacuation from Crete.

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Horrie in his pack.

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Horrie confronts an Arab, soon after a Stuka bombed the 2/1 Machine Gunners’ camp at Dier Suneid, Palestine, leaving bomb craters.

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Dog tired: Horrie sleeps alongside Moody in Crete.

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Horrie’s beach shelter near Tel Aviv. He had a busy day guarding the Rebels’ clothes from mischievous Arab boys.

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Horrie on guard outside the Rebels’ tent, Dier Suneid, Palestine, August 1941.

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Horrie was given this set of harness, complete with colour patch, in recognition of his faithful service in Greece and Crete. His identification disk was made from a Greek Drack coin engraved with H.Moody VXO1.

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Imshi (left) with Horrie.

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Horrie with a querulous look, which was a feature when he concentrated on the whine of in-coming German planes.

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A typical Middle Eastern coffee house.

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Author Ion Idriess meets Horrie. He would never know that Horrie survived.

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Moody with trademark pipe and camera.

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Moody and Imshi II with whom Horrie sired seven pups.

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Moody with second wife Joan. They married in 1951 and had three children.

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Horrie in Syria guarding equipment while the Rebels were employed making roads.

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Jim Moody examining an ancient coin he had just purchased. He believed it was from the era of Roman Rule, 64 BC to 323 AD.

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Imshi II, the Scottish Terrier from a Sydney dog pound, with three of her pups sired by Horrie.

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Moody with good friend and fellow Rebel, Don Gill.