Pattie Wright

Many would call these two men heroes and they would be right. Sadly, only one returned. Hec Waller was an RAN Captain and Weary Dunlop, a lieutenant Colonel, a doctor and POW. What are the odds that two of Australia's greatest came from what was then a small town by a river in northwest Victoria? Pattie Wright, author of The Men of the Line and the just published, Ray Parkin's Odyssey, will speak on the history of these two Benalla heroes.