Australian Regular Army Service: |
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March |
1956 |
Enlisted into the Australian Regular Army Special Reserve (O). |
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September |
1956 |
Posted to 1st Field Regiment, Georges Heights, Sydney
Posted to 104th Locating Battery, Middle Head, as a Locator Signaller (in February 1957 the Battery was re-titled as 101st Field Battery). |
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February |
1958 |
Qualified as a TARA (Field) Class 3. |
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October |
1958 |
Qualified as a TARA (Field) Class 1. |
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December |
1958 |
Promoted to the rank of Bombardier. |
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September |
1959 |
Posted to 101st Field Battery in Malaya. |
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July |
1960 |
Qualified as First Aid Instructor.
Transferred from the Australian Army Regular Army Special Reserve (O) into the Australian Regular Army. |
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October
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1961 |
Posted to 4th Field Regiment, Wacol, QLD.
Qualified as a Regimental Surveyor Class 3. |
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November |
1961 |
Qualified as a Regimental Surveyor Class 2. |
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May |
1963 |
Qualified in all subjects for promotion to Sergeant. |
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July |
1963 |
Promoted to the rank of Sergeant (as a Battery Surveyor). |
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July |
1964 |
Attended the 12/64 Regimental Officers' Gunnery (Field) Course. |
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September |
1964 |
Posted to the School of Artillery, on temporary promotion as a Warrant Officer Class Two, as an Assistant Instructor-in-Gunnery (Ack IG). |
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April |
1966 |
Promoted to the rank of Warrant Officer Class Two. |
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August |
1968 |
Posted to 4th Field Regiment as the Battery Sergeant-Major Headquarter Battery. |
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1969 |
Established the first impact area, gun position and observation post at the High Range Training Area, Townsville. |
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April |
1969 |
Attended the Unit Emplaning Officers' Course, RAAF Base Richmond. |
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February |
1970 |
Deployed to South Vietnam as the Battery Sergeant-Major Headquarter Battery, 4th Field Regiment. |
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March |
1971 |
Posted to the School of Artillery as an Assistant Instructor-in-Gunnery (Ack IG). |
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December |
1971 |
Posted to the Royal School of Artillery, Larkhill (UK). |
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January |
1972 |
Attended the Royal School of Artillery's No: 8 Gunnery NCO Staff Course (Field). |
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January |
1973 |
Attained the 1st Position in the Gunnery Staff Course's final assessment.
Attached, over the period January - June, to the Royal Artillery's Training Establishment, Germany, as a Regimental Assistant Instructor-in-Gunnery (Ack IG). |
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June |
1973 |
Posted to the School of Artillery, as an Assistant Instructor-in-Gunnery (Ack IG). |
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August |
1974 |
Awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. |
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November |
1974 |
Promoted to the rank of Warrant Officer Class One and posted as the School of Artillery's Master Gunner. |
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March |
1975 |
Posted to Headquarters Field Force Command - Artillery, Victoria Barracks, Sydney. |
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April |
1976 |
Took discharge from the Australian Regular Army and enlisted into the Army Reserve's 7th Field Regiment RAA, Sydney. |
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January |
1977 |
Took discharge from the Army Reserve. |
Post Military Service:
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1976 |
- 1985 |
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Insurance/Financial Planner. |
1986 |
- 2002 |
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A newsagent at Asquith, NSW |
2002 |
- Present |
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Retired to Laurieton, NSW, and currently the Treasurer of the Laurieton Returned and Services League. |
Awards:
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Australian Active Service Medal 1945 - 1975 (with clasps 'Malaya' and 'Vietnam'). |
General Service Medal (with clasp 'Malaya'). |
Vietnam Medal. |
Australian Service Medal 1945 - 1975 (with clasp 'South-East Asia'). |
Defence Force Service Medal. |
National Medal. |
Australian Defence Medal. |
Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. |
Vietnamese Campaign Medal. |
Pingat Jasa Malaysia Medal. |
Army Combat Badge. |
Civilian Credentials:
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Justice of the Peace (NSW). |
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| Associate Diploma of Human Resource Management. |
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