Arthur “Bushy” Pembroke won the Military Cross for his gallantry during “probably the greatest single feat of the Australian Army during the Korean War”.
It was a changed security situation after 2014 led directly to the formation of the NATO enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) Battlegroup based at Tapa, transforming the town of a little over 5,000 inhabitants, and about an hour's drive east of Tallinn, into a hive of activity and endeavor.