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A ‘jirga’ or council would be held, attended by the tribal headmen and the senior British military and political officers. In due course, after they had had enough of fighting, the tribesmen would let it be known that they were willing to submit. Sometimes a serious incident would require the despatch of a punitive expedition which would fight its way into the tribal territory and destroy the offending villages. Masters of the ambush and guerrilla war, they fought constantly among themselves and regularly against the British, who could provide much dangerous sport when there was nothing more pressing to occupy their minds. The same, to varying degrees, might have been said of all the tribes along the frontier, the Wazirs, Mahsuds, Orakzai, Mohmands and Yusufzai. Prominent among the frontier tribes were the Afridi, of whom it was said that robbery, murder, treachery and merciless blood feuds were the very breath of life. Despite this and his exposed position he continued playing, to encourage the Highlanders in their assault on the heights.įor a century the tangled mountains of the North-West Frontier of India provided the British and Indian Armies with a school for soldiers, a hard, unforgiving school in which mistakes cost lives and, above all, a school in which the only certainly was the unexpected.
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He was wounded and unable to walk and exposed to enemy fire. It was here that Piper Findlater won his VC. The Gordon Highlanders storming Dargai Heights during the Tirah campaign in 1897. The Cross in the Sky is the story of an extraordinary man, told by his younger son-and witness to some of these events-Charles Stuart Eaton. As Australia’s first diplomatic representative to the new nation of Indonesia, Charles Eaton laid the foundations of Australian–Indonesian bi-lateral relations.
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In the midst of the Indonesian War of Independence, his life-long experience culminated in initiatives that led to the first United Nations venture to monitor conflict resolution. As the Australian Consul in East Timor, he assisted the post-war reconstruction of that war-torn land. In Central Australia, following the disappearances of Kingsford Smith’s Southern Cross and Lasseter’s Golden Quest, he led rescue missions into the Tanami and Great Sandy deserts before establishing and then participating in the air defences of north-west Australia and West Papua during World War Two. In 1920 he flew in the first aerial survey of India, after which he lived amongst the Khond people of Orissa. After the Armistice, he ferried delegates to the Paris Peace Conference. He was a prisoner of war and twice court-martialled by the German Army. His story is intertwined with tectonic world events and a 65-year romance with Beatrice Rose Godfrey.Įaton served every day of both world wars, starting with the Royal West Surreys and finishing with the Royal Australian Air Force. As a soldier, pioneer aviator and pathfinder for global peacekeeping, Charles emerges as a trail-blazer in many realms. The Cross in the Sky is the remarkable story of Charles ‘Moth’ Eaton. by Charles Stuart Eaton Foreword by Dick Smith AO In Retrospect Air Commodore Dr Mark Lax OAM, CSM Soldier – Pioneer Aviator – Pathfinder for Global Peacekeeping. The Life and Adventures of Charles ‘Moth’ Eaton