THE Purcell family, with friends and comrades of Private Anthony (Tony) Purcell, gathered by his graveside at Mansfield Cemetery on Thursday, August 3, to honour his memory 57 years after being killed in action in Vietnam, a conflict that did not afford the same respect and reverence of those who fought in the previous two world wars until many years later.

The 21-year-old Mansfield man left behind his job as a bulldozer driver and y