9th Infantry Division

And I'll pull up on that theme later on.

My dad was a 9th Division cavalryman and a light horseman between the wars.

He served in North Africa and retrained to be 9th Division Cavalry Commando in Rocky Creek, west of Cairns, before his father convinced the Department of Army to give him back to run the land.

And I'll explain why in a minute.

My grandfather on my mother's side was an infantryman in the 23rd Battalion.

Her name was Jean, Margaret Jean Oddy.

My dad was James.

So she served over there and she served the 9th Battalion and I think the 8th, sorry, the 9th Division.

yeah the ninth infantry to me they didn't take heavy casualties in sicily they came in after palermo was captured and replaced the first id

but they're in that bloody fighting to the east The Octofoil we're talking about, the 9th Division.

Yeah, I mean, they're in a lot of that bloody fighting.

Because they

That's an interesting mark because that was actually, that was my question that I circled here.

Look at that.

Because I do think it's interesting, you know, having the very green, you know, 29th Division, although green, but have trained for two years, you know, on the western part of Omaha Beach.

And then you've got the more battle-hardened, you know, 1st Division on the east.