ONE NEWS CAPTIONS BY CONOR WHITTEN AND LAUREN STRAIN. CAPTIONS WERE MADE POSSIBLE WITH FUNDING FROM NZ ON AIR. COPYRIGHT TVNZ ACCESS SERVICES 2013 DUE TO THE LIVE NATURE OF SEVEN SHARP, WE APOLOGISE FOR THE LACK OF CAPTIONS FOR SOME ITEMS. WELCOME. LAST NIGHT WE BROUGHT YOU THE STORY OF A 100-YEAR-OLD BUGLE. TONIGHT WE REUNITE THE GALLIPOLI TREASURE WITH A FAMILY WHICH BELIEVES IT HAD LOST IT FOR GOOD. ALSO ` WAR VETERANS AREN'T ALWAYS OLD GUYS WHO DID THEIR SERVICE A LIFETIME AGO. NO, WE'RE REMINDED THAT THE RSA LOOK AFTER ALL SORTS, INCLUDING THE YOUNG SOLDIER WHO TRIED TO SAVE HIS MATE IN AFGHANISTAN THREE YEARS LATER. CPL MATTHEW BALL TALKS ABOUT THE TALIBAN ATTACK FOR THE FIRST TIME. FOR ME, WHEN I LOOK AT IT, YOU KNOW, I COULD HAVE SUFFERED THE SAME FATE, BUT I DIDN'T. YOU KNOW, AND THEN YOU GET TO SOME REAL LOW POINTS WHERE YOU'RE, LIKE, YOU JUST WISH IT WAS YOU AND NOT HIM. ALSO ` WHY HAS TRELISE COOPER SIGNED ON AS THE RSA'S AMBASSADOR? WELL, SHE'S HERE, AND WE'LL ASK HER. AND HOW PROUD ARE WE OF THE YOUNGEST EVER RECIPIENTS OF THE ANZAC OF THE YEAR AWARD? THEY TELL US HOW THEY'RE COPING WITH ALL THE FUSS. SO YOU'RE A BIT OVER THIS TV STUFF? YEAH. (CHUCKLES) YEP. (CHUCKLES) IT'S ANZAC DAY ON SEVEN SHARP. SO, IF YOU WATCHED LAST NIGHT, YOU'LL REMEMBER WE WERE TOLD A YARN ABOUT A BUGLE THAT WAS PLAYED AT GALLIPOLI IN 1915. IT WENT MISSING FOR YEARS, AND EVENTUALLY A PLUMBER FOUND IT AND HANDED IT IN TO AN AUCKLAND ARMY UNIT. THAT WAS ONLY AFTER TWO WAR MUSEUMS REFUSED TO TAKE IT. WELL, AFTER THE SHOW WE GOT AN EMAIL WE WEREN'T EXPECTING. DEAN BUTLER FOLLOWED IT UP. GRAHAM MILNE IS MISSING A BIT OF HIS HISTORY. HE HAS HIS DAD'S BUGLE MOUTHPIECE... IT EVEN HAS ITS OWN BRUSH TO CLEAN THEM OUT WHEN THEY WERE IN THE TRENCHES. ...BUT NO BUGLE. HIS DAD, ALLAN MILNE, WAS THE BUGLER FOR THE 18TH BATTALION IN WWII. < DID HE TALK MUCH ABOUT THE WAR, OR DID HE...? VERY LITTLE. AND THAT'S SOME OF THE... (CRIES) HE WAS AUCKLAND'S OFFICIAL BUGLER FOR THREE DECADES. BEFORE ANZAC DAY FOR WEEKS AND WEEKS AHEAD HE WAS PRACTISING AND PRACTISING AND PRACTISING. BUT ONE ANZAC DAY, THE BUGLE WENT MISSING. US KIDS, WE GOT TURNED UPSIDE DOWN. 'WHERE'S DAD'S BUGLE? WHERE'S THE BUGLE?' WE WERE, YOU KNOW... IT WAS THE INQUISITION. HERE'S THE THEORY. HE WAS ALWAYS ON CALL TO PLAY THE LAST POST AND REVEILLE AT FUNERALS. HE MAY HAVE TAKEN IT TO A FUNERAL, AND THEN GOT ON THE TURPS. THEY NEVER FOUND THE BUGLE. BUGLER PLAYS 'LAST POST' BUT A LIGHT WENT ON WHEN GRAHAM SAW OUR STORY ABOUT SGT SYDNEY POSTLEWAIGHTS. VERY EMOTIONAL. IT WAS SOMETHING THAT HAD BEEN IN MY CHILDHOOD, MY FAMILY, MY PAST. YEP, HE RECKONS THIS IS THE VERY BUGLE HIS DAD PLAYED,... THIS IS THE BEAST. THIS IS ONE OF THE MOUTHPIECES. ...PASSED DOWN FROM THE POSTLEWAIGHTS. MY FATHER'S AUNTY WAS CHRISSY POSTLEWAIGHT. AND THEY LIVED JUST DOWN THE ROAD FROM WHERE IT WAS FOUND. WE CAN'T SAY FOR SURE,... CERTAINLY THE GREAT WAR, THIS IS HOW THEY COMMUNICATED. AND THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF THEM. ...BUT WE LIKE TO THINK IT IS. IT'S ME PUTTING TOGETHER MY FATHER'S HISTORY. IT'S OUR INTENTION THAT EVERY ANZAC DAY AND ARMISTICE DAY IT GETS AN AIRING. IT'S RATHER NEAT TO THINK IT PLAYS AGAIN. BUT THERE'S ONE MORE THING TO PUT RIGHT. WHEN MY FATHER DIED, I COULDN'T FIND ANYBODY TO PLAY THE LAST POST FOR HIM. SO, GRAHAM, THIS ONE'S FOR YOUR DAD. BUGLER PLAYS 'LAST POST' COMING UP WITH A MORE UNLIKELY ALLIANCE WOULD BE HARD ` THE RSA'S ONE OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORGANISATIONS AROUND, WHILE TRELISE COOPER'S A SUCCESSFUL DESIGNER. TRELISE, YOU'RE AN RSA PATRON, BUT IT'S MORE THAN JUST A TITLE ` YOU'VE BEEN GIVEN A MISSION. WHAT IS IT? Today has been about stories like that all day. It's been an emotional and heartwarming. I went to the dawn service, which was just awesome. My grandfather was in WWII. My great uncle World War I and II. I think a lot of people have that story in New Zealand. People are going to find out what their descendants do and what their stories are. They had trenches of mud and horror, and they shielded their families from that if they came home. They are reluctant to talk about it, but you see the numbers turning up to the dawn parades. They were just shielding family and loved ones and also processing that themselves. We're going to have a look at some photos now of Anzac Day. COMING UP ` HE'S THE EMBODIMENT OF A HERO, AND WE FINALLY HEAR HIS STORY. THEY'RE PART OF THE ANZAC SPIRIT DESPITE HAVING A COMBINED AGE OF LESS THAN 25. AND FROM HEROIC BOYS TO ONE WITH TAPE ON HIS FACE, COMEDIAN SAM WILLS A BIT LATER. FOR MOST OF US, A VETERAN IS AN OLD DIGGER INTO HIS 80S WHO'S SERVED AND 'DONE HIS BIT'. TODAY OF ALL DAYS, MAYBE WE NEED A REMINDER THAT OUR DEFENCE FORCE PERSONNEL ARE STILL DOING 'THEIR BIT' EVERY DAY FROM THE SOLOMONS TO SOUTH KOREA, AND UNTIL VERY RECENTLY, AFGHANISTAN. CORPORAL MATTHEW BALL'S DONE HIS BIT, AND IT WAS MAJOR. HE HASN'T REALLY TALKED ABOUT IT UNTIL NOW, BUT HE MADE AN EXCEPTION FOR JEHAN CASINADER, AT LINTON ARMY CAMP NEAR PALMERSTON NORTH. ON AN EARLY MORNING TRAINING RUN, CORPORAL MATTHEW BALL IS JUST ONE OF THE BOYS. YOU'D QUITE LIKELY UNDERRATE HIM BECAUSE HE DOESN'T PUSH HIMSELF FORWARD. HE NEVER HAS. HE'S JUST QUIETLY GONE ABOUT HIS BUSINESS. BUT HE'S ALSO A WAR HERO. I HAVEN'T REALLY SPOKEN ABOUT IT TOO MUCH. I'VE TOLD A FEW PEOPLE. A MAN WHO PUT HIS OWN LIFE ON THE LINE FOR A MATE. I JUST DID WHAT I THOUGHT WAS RIGHT AT THE TIME. CORPORAL BALL JOINED UP AT 17. SCHOOL REALLY WASN'T DOING IT FOR ME, SO I JUST WANTED TO GET OUT AND ABOUT, AND I SAW THE ARMY AS MY OPPORTUNITY, MY TICKET OUT OF HOME. (LAUGHS) IN 2010 THAT TICKET TOOK HIM TO AFGHANISTAN. ONLY FOUR MONTHS INTO HIS TOUR, THINGS WERE ABOUT TO CHANGE. IT WAS AN ODD DAY, TO BE HONEST. WHEN WE WOKE UP, IT WAS OVERCAST, IT WAS QUITE COOL, WHICH WAS QUITE ODD. THE HUMVEE HE WAS DRIVING WAS HIT BY A ROADSIDE BOMB. BOOM! I KNEW STRAIGHT AWAY WHAT HAD HAPPENED. I KNEW I WAS PRETTY BADLY CONCUSSED. DRAMATIC MUSIC AS IT STARTED TO WEAR OFF, YOU KNOW, YOU STARTED TO THINK A LITTLE BIT MORE CLEARLY, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHEN IT SORT OF STARTED TO REALLY KICK IN. IT WAS AN AMBUSH, AND THE VEHICLE WAS ABLAZE. I ACTUALLY DIDN'T THINK OF ANYONE ELSE AT THE TIME, COS I WAS STILL SITTING IN THE FRONT SEAT. I JUST REMEMBER LOOKING DOWN, AND ALL MY FINGERS AND ALL THE LIMBS WERE THERE, SO... BUT SLUMPED IN THE PASSENGER SEAT, HIS FRIEND LIEUTENANT TIM O'DONNELL. CORPORAL BALL AND LANCE CORPORAL ALLISTER BAKER DECIDED TO STAY AND HELP THEIR MATE. I DIDN'T REALLY WANT TO LEAVE HIM THERE. THE ENEMY JUST 45M AWAY. THE POSITION WE WERE IN, WE HAD NO IDEA WHERE THEY WERE. WE JUST HAD A GENERAL IDEA. THERE WAS NO WAY WE WERE GONNA PUT OUR HEADS UP TO HAVE A LOOK. READS: FOR THE NEXT FIVE MINUTES, WHILE UNDER CONTINUOUS FIRE FROM THE ENEMY, BOTH SOLDIERS TOOK TURNS TO TRY AND RECOVER THEIR COMMANDER, LIEUTENANT TIM O'DONNELL'S, BODY. AS THEY PERSEVERED, ENEMY FIRE INTENSIFIED, AND THE VEHICLE WAS HIT BY TWO ROCKETS. THEY CRAWLED ACROSS OPEN GROUND UNDER ENEMY FIRE. THEN CORPORAL BALL SHELTERED IN A CREEK BED WHILE WAITING FOR HELP TO ARRIVE FROM A NEARBY TOWN THAT WAS 10 K'S AWAY. READS: CORPORAL BALL, IN ADDITION TO THE WOUND TO HIS LEG, > HAD ALSO RECEIVED SHRAPNEL WOUNDS TO BOTH LEGS AND BOTH ARMS, > MUSCULAR DAMAGE TO AN ANKLE AND BURNS TO HIS HEAD AND FACE. > HE AND LANCE CORPORAL BAKER CAME HOME ALIVE, BUT THEY BROUGHT TIM O'DONNELL BACK IN A CASKET. FOR ME, WHEN I LOOK AT IT, YOU KNOW, I COULD HAVE SUFFERED THE SAME FATE, BUT I DIDN'T. YOU KNOW, AND THEN YOU GET TO SOME REAL LOW POINTS WHERE YOU JUST WISH IT WAS YOU AND NOT HIM. FOR MONTHS, HE SLEPT ONLY THREE HOURS A NIGHT. IT WAS KIND OF LIKE STILL LIVING THE EXPERIENCE. YOU'RE STILL GETTING THE ADRENALIN RUSHES. HE DECIDED TO STAY IN THE ARMY, WHERE HE HAD TIME TO HEAL AND TIME TO FIND A NEW TRADE. HE'S AN INSTRUCTOR HERE, AND HE'S A VERY GOOD INSTRUCTOR, I HAVE TO SAY. A VERY CALM, METHODICAL INSTRUCTOR WHO LENDS AN AIR OF CONFIDENCE TO THE STUDENTS. AT JUST 26, CORPORAL BALL IS ONE OF OUR VETERANS. THEY'RE NOT THE 70-YEAR-OLDS, THEY'RE NOT OUR GRANDFATHERS, BUT THEY'RE VETERANS JUST THE SAME. DESPITE WHAT'S HAPPENED, HE SAYS HIS TIME IN AFGHANISTAN WAS THE BEST OF HIS LIFE. LET PEOPLE BE PROUD OF THAT AND CELEBRATE THAT, YES, IT'S A TRAGEDY, BUT THEY WERE DOING SOMETHING REALLY IMPORTANT AND KNEW THEY WERE DOING SOMETHING REALLY IMPORTANT. NOW HE'S TURNED HIS ATTENTION TO A DIFFERENT FIGHT. JU-JITSU'S BEEN A BIG PART OF HIS RECOVERY. GIVEN MY EXPERIENCES, IF YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO, YOU'RE GONNA DWELL ON WHAT HAS BEEN AND WHAT CAN'T BE CHANGED. AND SOMETHING LIKE THIS IS ALWAYS SOMETHING ELSE TO LOOK FORWARD TO. CORPORAL BALL HOPES TO RETURN TO THE FIELD BY THE END OF THE YEAR. YOU KNOW THAT PEOPLE DESCRIBE YOU AS A 'HERO'. YEAH, SOME OF MY MATES CALL ME 'HERO' JUST TO GIVE ME A BIT OF STICK, BUT... IT'S ALL RIGHT, THOUGH. (LAUGHS) I CAN HANDLE IT. BUT IN A DAY AND AGE WHEN WE'RE SHORT OF HEROES, WHY SHOULDN'T HE BE? WHY SHOULDN'T MUM AND DADS GO, 'HEY, LOOK AT THIS GUY. HE WENT OUT, 'HE DID IT, HE DID EVERYTHING HE COULD TO LOOK AFTER HIS MATES, 'AND THEN HE CRACKED ON WITH BUSINESS AND HE CARRIED ON GOING.' You hear people like that and you think could we be A cooler, more understated lot if we tried? I have a job to do, and I see the biggest role that I can do for the RSA is to bring a contemporary relevance to it for the young people of today and also to keep the Memorial and the commemoration are live because that's actually very important, but to give a refreshed brand to the RSA because the RSA for a lot of people as old diggers and veterans who are old. Some of the values, you know, comradeship and friendship, presumably that's about the unit that they form. It's also about the courage and bravery and adventure, but it is about young people coming through, understanding and knowing that we should not forget. That has been happening, hasn't it? We've been reporting that more and more young people have been attending those dawn services and feeling provide. It's growing, and I think that's the exciting thing. There's some wonderful initiatives underway with the RSA. Fields of remembrance is about planting crosses on islands. I think as a nation, it something that's going to bring us all together and get us discovering how our families played a role. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A SOLDIER TO BE A HERO. YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO BE A GROWN-UP, ACTUALLY. THIS YEAR'S RECIPIENTS OF THE ANZAC OF THE YEAR AWARD ARE QUITE SMALL, BUT VERY VERY BRAVE. MICHAEL HOLLAND WAS WITH THEM IN WAIHI WHEN THEY FOUND OUT ABOUT THEIR GONG. FOR COUSINS AND BESTIES SERGE AND WILL, THIS COMES GOOD AND EASY. ALAS FOR SAID REPORTER, TALKING DOESN'T. SO YOU'RE A BIT OVER THIS TV STUFF? YEAH. (CHUCKLES) YEP. (CHUCKLES) FUN ROCK MUSIC BUT PERSEVERE WE WILL, COS OUT OF BOYS GOOFING ROUND BEING BOYS COMES SOMETHING HEROIC, SOMETHING REMARKABLE. SO I KNEW WE HAD TO HELP HIM, OTHERWISE HE COULD DROWN. SO JUST HAD TO KEEP GOING, OTHERWISE IF WE DIDN'T, IT COULD MEAN HIS LIFE. THAT WAS AT WAIHI BEACH BACK IN THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. THE BOYS HAILED FOR SAVING A FAST-WEAKENING AND QUITE HEFTY MAN FROM A STRONG RIP. I'VE GOTTA BE HONEST, BOYS, WHEN I FIRST HEARD ABOUT YOU GUYS ON THE RADIO, I DIDN'T BELIEVE IT. I DIDN'T BELIEVE 12-YEAR-OLDS COULD DO THAT. ANOTHER PROD, STILL NOT MUCH IN RETURN. SO HERE'S SERGE'S MUM. EVEN NOW, DO THEY REALISE WHAT THEY'VE DONE? I DON'T THINK SO. I DON'T THINK SO. ENTER MAURICE RIMMER FROM THE WAIHI BEACH RSA. HE'S COME ON THE PRETEXT OF ASKING STUDENTS IN HIS PATCH ABOUT THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ANZAC DAY. BUT THERE'S A TWIST WE'LL GET TO SOON. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE WORD ACTUALLY MEANS? ANZAC? YEAH. AUSTRALIA NZ... ARMY CORPS. AND WE REFER TO WHAT THEY DID IN THOSE DAYS FOR EACH OTHER AS THE ANZAC SPIRIT. THEY WERE FRIENDS; THEY WERE COMRADES; THEY LOOKED AFTER EACH OTHER. NOW THE TWIST, THE GREAT REVEAL. THE RSA'S ANNUAL TIPPING OF THE HAT TO THOSE DEEMED TO EPITOMISE THE ANZAC SPIRIT. THE BIG SURPRISE IS YOU TWO ARE THE ANZAC OF THE YEAR. PRETTY COOL. PRETTY COOL. I'M SURPRISED YOU'VE GOT WORDS. HE'S AN AMAZING DUDE, AND WELL DESERVED, THIS AWARD, COS IT WAS AN INCREDIBLE THING THAT WILL AND SERGE DID THAT DAY. IT'S KINDA HARD CASE. THEY BOTH, 'OH, YEAH, YEAH,' YOU KNOW. (LAUGHS) HUMBLE. AH, THAT DOWN-HOME HUMBLENESS ` ENDEARING, BUT SERIOUSLY HARD-GOING. I'VE GOT A 12-YEAR-OLD AT HOME ` I HOPE YOU'RE WATCHING, YOUNG MAN. THESE GUYS ARE A FINE EXAMPLE OF WHAT YOUNG LADS CAN DO. I WANT YOU TO WRITE THE WORD 'BRAVE', AND THEN WRITE UNDERNEATH IT WHAT IT MEANS. READS: IT MEANS THAT YOU ARE NOT AFRAID TO HELP SOMEONE OR TO DO SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE SCARED TO. READS: BE STRONG AND FEARLESS. ATTRIBUTES RECOGNISED AND REWARDED BY A LEADER WITH A DISTINGUISHED MILITARY PEDIGREE. AND, AT LAST, JUST A HINT OF SELF-PRAISE. QUITE PROUD OF BOTH OF US... WHAT WE DID. SELFLESS, BRAVE, TRUE ANZACS ` TRUE ANZAC KIDS. WONDERFUL ANZAC AMBASSADORS. THIS IS AN ANZAC AMBASSADOR'S DRESS. AFTER THE BREAK ` FORGET FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS; WE MEET THE COMEDIAN GETTING FIVE STARS FOR HIS UNFORGETTABLE SHOW. FORGET TELLING JOKES; OUR NEXT GUEST SHOWS THAT SOMETIMES THE BEST FUNNY HAPPENS WITH YOUR MOUTH SHUT. MAN: # MY LOVE, # THERE'S ONLY YOU IN MY LIFE. THE ONLY THING THAT'S RIGHT. WOMAN: # MY FIRST LOVE, YOU'RE EVERY BREATH THAT I TAKE... # SAM WILLS IS THE BOY WITH TAPE ON HIS FACE. HE'S PERFORMING AT THE COMEDY FESTIVAL AFTER SELL-OUT SHOWS AND FIVE-STAR REVIEWS IN THE UK. SAM, YOU AND I USED TO GIG TOGETHER IN THE EARLY DAYS. WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO SHUT YOUR MOUTH FOR GOOD? I did another show where I talk too much, so I thought I'd gaffer take my mouth shut and do a show that didn't have any talking. This is really important, in the face that you're making to the Muppets. Because there's no talking, it international, you don't have to worry about language. YOU INVOLVE AUDIENCE MEMBERS IN YOUR ACT. one of the most important things in your act is that youHOW DO FIND PEOPLE REACT TO BEING PART OF THE SHOW? DO PEOPLE REACT DIFFERENTLY IN DIFFERENT PLACES? I treat the audience nicely. I give them simple jobs and I want them to have a good time. Kiwis are surprisingly clean. They play along quite well. They have a couple of drinks and relax. YOU'VE JUST HAD A BABY. IS THE TOURING LIFE HARD FOR A YOUNG DAD? That child is going to grow up, and you'll have to explain what dad does for a living. THAT'S OUR SHOW. THANKS FOR WATCHING US. SEE YOU TOMORROW NIGHT AT 7 SHARP. CAPTIONS BY FAITH HAMBLYN AND JESSICA BOELL. 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