Senator Faulkner and a trip to the heart aboard a bus

By Tony Wright
Updated December 20 2014 - 1:13am, first published 12:15am
Australian War Veterans Minister John Faulkner, left, shakes hands with Australian World War I veterans Peter Casserty, centre, and Edward Charles Field after the remembrance ceremony in Paris, 1993.
Australian War Veterans Minister John Faulkner, left, shakes hands with Australian World War I veterans Peter Casserty, centre, and Edward Charles Field after the remembrance ceremony in Paris, 1993.
Australian War Veterans Minister John Faulkner, left, shakes hands with Australian World War I veterans Peter Casserty, centre, and Edward Charles Field after the remembrance ceremony in Paris, 1993.
Australian War Veterans Minister John Faulkner, left, shakes hands with Australian World War I veterans Peter Casserty, centre, and Edward Charles Field after the remembrance ceremony in Paris, 1993.
Australian War Veterans Minister John Faulkner, left, shakes hands with Australian World War I veterans Peter Casserty, centre, and Edward Charles Field after the remembrance ceremony in Paris, 1993.
Australian War Veterans Minister John Faulkner, left, shakes hands with Australian World War I veterans Peter Casserty, centre, and Edward Charles Field after the remembrance ceremony in Paris, 1993.
Australian War Veterans Minister John Faulkner, left, shakes hands with Australian World War I veterans Peter Casserty, centre, and Edward Charles Field after the remembrance ceremony in Paris, 1993.
Australian War Veterans Minister John Faulkner, left, shakes hands with Australian World War I veterans Peter Casserty, centre, and Edward Charles Field after the remembrance ceremony in Paris, 1993.

It was somewhere between Arras in northern France and the Belgium border when the little old man became agitated.

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