World War II veterans Wally Cuss, 92, of Wodonga, and Tom Cuss, 90, of Melbourne, reckon it was about time they both marched in the same parade.

“We are not getting any younger,” Tom said.

“Who knows how many years we both have left in us?”

Wally served in the 79th Armoured Division, a specialist British Army formation created by the Allies as they prepared for D-Day, the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944.

Mr Cuss, who is blind, does not talk about what happened during his part in the liberation of Western Europe.

The former long-time Yackandandah resident has never missed an Anzac Day march in the town.

Tom is much the same, but has always marched in Melbourne.

He served in the Royal Navy on board the HMS Ballinderry between 1943 and 1945.

“It means a great deal to be here today with my older brother,” he said.

“We both served in the war and I feel sorry for the poor soldiers who died working for our country.”

Tom didn’t mind sharing his involvement during his time at war.

“We were stationed in Gibraltar and we used to pick up a convoy coming out from England and we would escort them down to Sierra Leone and another group would take it on to South Africa,” he said.

“We would do the same thing coming back.

“Eventually I transferred to a destroyer and the job we finished up with doing was trying to stop illegal immigrants coming out from Europe and getting into Palestine and Israel because the war was getting near the end.

“That’s the way it finished up for me.”

Tom reckoned he saw a limited amount of action going through the convoys.

“We went into battlefield a few times, but never got anything really,” he said.

“We only ever got one possible submarine.

“No debris came up and we couldn’t stop to find out if we hit it, but we lost contact with it and so we just assumed.”

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