Selecting a person to research

Image above: Page from the Virtual War Memorial re: Vietnam soldiers.

As mentioned at the briefing you are to nominate a soldier (preferably South Australian) to present on one of the nights of the tour.
We ask you to go to the Virtual War Memorial and select a soldier who died during the Vietnam War. You will be asked during our trip to share the story of your selected person with us as a way of connecting with the sacrifice such times in our history have involved. We cannot visit the grave of the soldiers but we can in our own way remember and commemorate their sacrifice – and that of their family and loved ones all of these years ago. Do what you can to find out some information and background on a person – you will need to do a bit of checking out of names to find one with enough information uploaded. 
Feel free to look at other sources to build you story, such as the Australian War Memorial and the Australian Archives: 
 

https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/explore/people?conflict_id=5&died_in_service%3F=true

https://www.awm.gov.au/people/roll-search/all/?preferred_name=dennis+abraham&service_number=&unit=&conflict=0&op=Search

http://www.vietnamroll.gov.au/veteransearch.aspx

To date I have the following soldiers nominated to have their story told:

Josh B: William Thomas

Lily: Allan Moss

Hannah B: David Paterson 

Metala: Peter Chant 

Alicia: Thomas Blackhurst

Lucy: Laurence Clifford

Jasmin: Dennis Nelson  

Josh L: Ronald Hood

Abbie: Errol Noack

Alyssa: Kevin Mitchinson

Laura: James Houston

Jessica: Michael Tongnolin 

Hannah Z: Gordon Sharp

I am happy to upload any information on your soldier onto this blog if you put it into a Word document for me and send through any images you download.