John Cantwell, queensland country boy, enlisted in the army as a private and rose to the rank of major general. He was on the front line in 1991 as coalition forces fitted bulldozer blades to tanks and buried iraqi troop...John Cantwell, queensland country boy, enlisted in the army as a private and rose to the rank of major general. He was on the front line in 1991 as coalition forces fitted bulldozer blades to tanks and buried iraqi troops alive.