I was too distressed yesterday to take an active part in the Forum yesterday and didn't want to post this topic on such a day, anyway.
On ABC radio, before 10.00 am, a man was interviwed about Jack Dyer. He received his OAM award the same day as Jack and had been involved with Richmond as a member of the Sunraysia Football League (I think I've got that right), anyhow Sunraysia was Richmond recruiting territory. He mentioned that both Mark Lee and Dale Weightman came from Mildura.
In the course of the interview, he was asked "...and did Jack Dyer serve in the war? (WW2)", to which this man replied, "No, he joined the police force." "Oh," said the interviewer, "so then he was exempt on the basis of being in an essential service."
OK, it was a very emotional day for me, and I was feeling very fragile, etc, and I maybe got it wrong, but I felt it was being insinuated that Jack had joined the police force in order not to go off to war. I read somewhere or other a long time ago that there were several reasons Jack became a policeman, but cowardice was not one of them.
I seem to think he was in the force well before WW2 broke out, and 1934 keeps coming up in my mind, but I can't be sure.
Does anyone have anything on this that might settle the matter as to when Jack did join the police force?
On ABC radio, before 10.00 am, a man was interviwed about Jack Dyer. He received his OAM award the same day as Jack and had been involved with Richmond as a member of the Sunraysia Football League (I think I've got that right), anyhow Sunraysia was Richmond recruiting territory. He mentioned that both Mark Lee and Dale Weightman came from Mildura.
In the course of the interview, he was asked "...and did Jack Dyer serve in the war? (WW2)", to which this man replied, "No, he joined the police force." "Oh," said the interviewer, "so then he was exempt on the basis of being in an essential service."
OK, it was a very emotional day for me, and I was feeling very fragile, etc, and I maybe got it wrong, but I felt it was being insinuated that Jack had joined the police force in order not to go off to war. I read somewhere or other a long time ago that there were several reasons Jack became a policeman, but cowardice was not one of them.
I seem to think he was in the force well before WW2 broke out, and 1934 keeps coming up in my mind, but I can't be sure.
Does anyone have anything on this that might settle the matter as to when Jack did join the police force?
