Returned soldier David Beynon, who served in the 1st Battalion of The Royal Australian Regiment Vietnam between 1965 and 1966, recently found himself the subject of an article in the Vietnam Veteran Post.
His brothers, John and Peter Beynon, had been searching for him for many years and were losing hope of locating him. It had been fifteen years since David last contacted them after his phone number for them had been disconnected. 
David had been living with PTSD and cognitive decline in rental accommodation with other tenants, with the landlord who would later become his authorised representative.
It wasn’t until David became unwell that he ended up in Concord Hospital. Though touch and go for a while, David recovered from his illness and was transferred to Catholic Healthcare’s Holy Spirit Croydon aged care home for around-the-clock care.
Holy Spirit Croydon works with the Sydney Local Health District and has 60 beds available for those most in need.
In a twist of fate, David’s ex-landlord was reading an issue of the Vietnam Veteran Post that had been sent to the house and spotted an ad looking for David.
She visited Holy Spirit Croydon to show David and manager Binu Lohanee the adverisement. David became emotional and wanted to reconnect with his long-lost brothers. David got in contacted his brothers and soon after, his brother Peter and his niece Patricia visited him.
Today, David lives with Peter in a two-bedroom granny flat on his niece’s 5-acre property on the South Coast. They spend their days looking after the animals in a friendly, local community among loving family.