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Western Mail, Thursday, 2 January 1930, p. 2
Jack Dwyer
None received the news of Mr. J.P. Dwyers elevation to a Judgeship on the Supreme Court Bench with more pleasure than his old comrades of the 44th Battalion. His acquaintance with that unit was not a long one, but every hour of it was crammed with excitement. He joined it as a reinforcement officer at 9 o'clock on the night of August 21, 1918, when the battalion was dug in near Chipilly, on the north bank of the Somme. When he and some other officers (one was Dick Hearty, well known in Perth) arrived, a conference was in progress and the CO was explaining to all officers the details of an attack next morning through Gresseurre Wood and on to Bray. The new officers were posted to companies and took their platoons over the top next morning, through a barrage on the Bray plateau which lives in memory. One of the new arrivals was wounded. His service with the unit was exactly ll hours. From then on to the Hindenburg Line. It was continuous movement, and on one occassion, the 44th attacked and took three objectives in 24 hours. Jack Dwyer's smile never came off, whatever the conditions, however onerous the job, And there were times in those last sixty days when the success or otherwise of an operation depended entirely, on the platoon commander's ability to give his orders with a smile.