Max Hammond describes life as a soldier as “99 per cent idleness and one per cent action”.
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“And when it is action, it’s big action,” the 98-year-old said.
Many decades since his return from World War II, where Mr Hammond served in the Middle East and the Pacific, the memories are as sharp as ever.
“I’m just proud to be home and to have served with the fellas who lost their lives. What brave men they were. (They had) no thought for their own safety,” he told The Standard in the lead-up to the 75th anniversary of the Battle of El Alamein.
Mr Hammond was 21 when he enlisted and he said luckily his three brothers also returned home.
He will be 99 in a few weeks and remains active and continues to play bowls and embrace his love of Holden cars.
Mr Hammond retired as a petrol tanker driver in 1978 after 44 years with the same oil company.
