GUEST speaker RSL Victoria State president Dr Rob Webster delivered this year's Vietnam Veterans Day address in a moving commemorative service held by Beechworth RSL sub–branch last Thursday.

A fifty–strong crowd gathered at the cenotaph in Beechworth's Town Hall Gardens for the event, among which were RSL members from regional RSL Sub–Branches.

"We gather here today to remember and honour those who died, were wounded and suffered from their service in Vietnam," Dr Webster said.

"We continue to honour the service and sacrifice of all Vietnam veterans on this day."

The day marked the 56th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan where, on August 18, 1966 in a rubber plantation near the village of Long Tan, Australian soldiers from D Company, 6th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment fought one of their fiercest battles of the Vietnam War.

Dr Webster said in 1969, during 6th Battalion's second tour of Vietnam, D Company returned to Long Tan to erect a memo...