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"[to Archy] The thing I can't stand about you, mate, is you're always so bloody cheerful."
"Major Barton: [to the soldiers] All right men... we're going. But I want you to remember who you are. You are the 10th Light Horse! Men from Western Australia. Don't forget it. Good luck."
"Sgt. Sayers: As you all know, this morning's exercise involves a frontal assault on an enemy trench, the enemy being some "gentlemen" from the Light Horse. These "gentlemen," presumably because their arses are higher from the ground than ours, tend to assume airs of superiority. But, they won't have their horses with them today, so I want you to go out there this morning, and short of actually killing them, show them the stuff the infantry is MADE OF! [soldiers cheer]"
"From a place you've never heard of, comes a story you'll never forget ."
"Peter Weir's film of...Gallipoli"
"From a legend we'll always remember comes a story you'll never forget."
"Mark Lee - Archy Hamilton"
"Mel Gibson - Frank Dunne"
"Bill Kerr - Jack"
"Harold Hopkins - Les McCann"
"Charles Yunupingu - Zac"
"Ron Graham - Wallace Hamilton"
"Gerda Nicolson - Rose Hamilton"
"Robert Grubb - Billy (Lewis)"
"Tim McKenzie - Barney (Wilson)"
"David Argue - Snowy (G. S. Wilkes)"
"Steve Dodd - Billy Snakeskin"
"Robyn Galwey - Mary"
"Don Quin - Lionel"
"Phyllis Burford - Laura"
"Marjorie Irving - Gran"
"Bill Hunter - Major Barton"
"Diane Chamberlain - Mrs Barton"
"Peter Ford - Lieutenant Gray"
"Geoff Parry - Sergeant Sayers"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.