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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Sat 26 Apr 1952 Page 5By BERNARD FRIEDMAN
Trooper Stephen Yuille's spurs jingled as he rode down Swanston st., with the 1st Contingent, Victorian Bushmen. . . .
Somewhere in the procession a band played "Soldiers of the Queen," and Trooper Yuille's head was high.
. . . That was 53 years ago, but to Trooper Yuille, marching in yesterday's procession, it was still a very vivid memory.
He was 81 now, and his head was just as high. He was the oldest of the Anzac Day marchers. Trooper Stephen Yuille
didn't talk much about war, though, as I walked alongside his erect, marching form. He talked more of his mates long dead, of his
gold-prospecting days in Omeo before he went to war, his prospecting for gold around Johannesburg in the early 1900's, after
the war. And he told me of many other memories, too - of how they'd stopped the cable cars to let the soldiers pass on that sunny
February day in 1899. He remembered the men with walrus moustaches and boxer hats who had stood outside the hotels
with 3d. pints of beer in their hands to watch the boys go by.
Yesterday there was something of the same thing about it all to Trooper Stephen Yuille.
The hotels were closed, of course - a solemn day, now - but the electric trams hung back on the edge of the procession
route, like the cable cars had done. . . . And there was still special cheer for the Boys of the Old Brigade.

One of the lesser known facts is Stephen was one of the earliest 'indigenous' men to enlist. His grandmother was full blood aboriginal.