THIS IS THE STORY of Brigadier Arnold Potts, a Great War and World War Tivo hero, a country farmer from Western Australia who led the Australian 21st Infantry Brigade in crucial engagements against Japanese forces in Papua in 1942.

He organised and inspired his outnumbered and out-gunned men to conduct a three! week-long fighting withdrawal back along the Kokoda Track. The Japanese force was eventually fought to a standstill on loribaiwa Ridge.

Instead of receiving the accolades of his superiors and the thanks of a nation, Potts was ignominiously removed from his command and sent to the 23rd Brigade at Adelaide River, south of Darwin.

Many veterans of the Kokoda campaign regard Potts' dismissal as a disgrace and an

attempt to cover up the inadequacies of MacArthur and Blamey: