From 1965 - 66 Britain and her allies fought a ?secret? war against Indonesia in Borneo. The war was so controversial that knowledge of it was kept from parliament at the time. It was a conflict that presaged Vietnam in many of its political motives, military tactics and in its use of toxic defoliants. Many casualties were incurred, and many have been the subsequent premature deaths among the DLI veterans.
This was also the last war of the DLI. The Last Conflict tells of the part it played in the last two months of the war. It is also the gripping personal story of the author, who had escaped the grim industrial landscape of the North East to join the DLI. Barely out of basic training, he was transferred without leave to the jungles of Borneo, aged only eighteen. The final conflict, in which many enemy soldiers were killed, took place in February 1966. The author and his fellow soldiers then struggled through the jungle for several days, alongside stretchers bearing the wounded and the dead body of Thomas Griffiths, the last man to be killed in action serving with the DLI.