We are the dead . . . 
Take up our quarrel with the foe 
To you from failing hands we throw 
The torch, be yours to hold it high 



If ye break faith with us who die 
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow 
In Flanders fields. 

Recent allegations of financial misconduct by senior figures in the RSL have breached the faith of those who passed the torch of integrity to Australia’s largest ex-service organisation.