According to Crawfords if watching the film in conjunction with The Sullivans series it should be watched after season six.
The film opens in the Eastern Mediterranean in July 1941.
John hails from Gordon Street in Melbourne's Camberwell district. His father works in a factory and his mother is a housewife. He has a sister and two brothers (one called Tom who went to Crete as part of the war effort). He's a private in the Australian Army Medical Corps (private VX11986).
John is shown looking at a copy of the photo taken during The Opening of The Sullivans.
The final film of Ronald Lewis who committed suicide in 1982.