Anzac veteran's grandson heads off to Vietnam

By Kate McIlwain
Updated September 19 2012 - 8:34pm, first published 7:50pm
Smith's Hill High student Jack Simmons at the Vietnam Memorial on Flagstaff Hill. Picture: KIRK GILMOUR
Smith's Hill High student Jack Simmons at the Vietnam Memorial on Flagstaff Hill. Picture: KIRK GILMOUR

AS 16-year-old Jack Simmons wanders through the former battlefields of Vung Tau and Long Tan next week he will think of his grandfather Basil Simmons, an Anzac soldier in World War II.

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