A story to be told and commemorated on the trip

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 the 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

Please get your nominated soldier to me via email as soon as you can to make sure your soldier is available to research. To date I have the following soldiers nominated to have their story told:

Angelique: Peter Jeffery Nation

Ella: Major Peter John Badcoe 

Diana: Anthony Vincent Quigley

Archer: Hugh Carlyle.

Kelly:  Lindsay Noel Brown

Koby: John Frances Gillespie

Oliver: David Paterson

Lucy: Douglas Graham Borlace

Cassie: Robert John Caston

Laj: Peter Allan Chant

Jenny: Alan Douglas Jellie

Neva: Robert Walter Bowtell 

Abby: Geoffrey Lawrence Tweedie 

Holly:  Graham Leonard Norley

Lila: Errol Wayne Noack

Malcolm: Bruno Adam Adamczyk

Elspeth: Tracker dogs in the Vietnam War

Andrew: Barry Creig Donald

Cheryl: Francis Lindsay Raffin

Peter:Major George Constable

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.