Rescue PART TWO

from 2009-10 Sydney (1)

CINETALK

Reverently, the group stopped at poor young Westray’s body, and buried him in a grove of trees, where he still lies.

O’Reilly and his loyal mate, Bob Stephens, reached the two survivors first, and gave them nourishment as directed by Dr Lawler, who arrived with the rest of the party somewhat later. Incredibly, the doctor expressed confidence that Proud’s gangrenous and broken leg could be saved. In the meantime, the “road gang” made amazing progress, often in the dark, in cutting a track through to the injured men. From all over the district, an army of men (and women) took up the call, either to help build the track, to bring food and drink, or to assist with nursing and first aid. When, incredibly, the work was done, strong men lifted Proud’s and Binstead’s stretchers, and began their long trek through the rainforest. Among the many folk they met along the way back home were most of O’Reilly’s family, who had come to lend a hand.

Eleven hours after their journey “home” had begun, John Proud and Joe Binstead were placed in an ambulance, on their way to hospital and eventual recovery.

One of Bernard O’Reilly’s sad but important meetings was with the brothers of the deceased pilot, Captain Boyden, and with the parents of the ill-fated Jim Westray. O’Reilly considered both men to be of the finest type.

In 1988, the ABC and the Australian Film Commission produced a docudrama, called The Search for the Stinson, which starred Jack Thompson as Bernard O’Reilly.

It was, as I recall, an excellent and factually very accurate portrayal of these events of over 70 years ago. The O’Reilly’s guest-house still exists, high in his beloved Green Mountains, the family tradition of bush hospitality still maintained. Bernard O’Reilly served with the Australian Infantry Forces in World War II. Apart from his books about the Australian bush, he was a published scholar on Catholicism. He died, aged 72, in Queensland in 1975.

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