By STEVE GRAY
THE 2013 Armistice Day commemorated the end to two wars, the so-called Great War of 1914-18 and the Korean War which raged up and down the Korean Peninsula between 1950 and 1953.
Ray “Curley” Parker served in Korea and said he believes he is the only veteran of the fighting living in Warwick. The armistice bringing an unsettled peace was signed 60 years ago.
Mr Parker proudly displayed a medal and sash presented by the president of South Korea to all who served in the war.
The Warwick cenotaph commemorates two men who did not come home – listed as Newman T.C. and Siebenhausen N.A.
Southern Downs mayor Peter Blundell wore the tricolour sash given to him by the mayor of the French town of Pozieres.
He said the French still commemorated the contribution Australian diggers made during World War I.
