Sharing stories and commemorating on the trip

Stories are very important for us to share

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

As mentioned at the briefing you are to nominate a soldier (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 your 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

Soldiers nominated to have their story told:

Sophie B:  Richard Woolford

Melissa: Peter Badcoe

Laura: Robert Lubcke

Matilda: Graham Norley

Lily: Hugh Carlyle

Montana: Ronald Hoods

Liam; Bernard Smith

Shreyas: George Constable

Sophie L: Allan Moss
India: Michael Herbert

Charli: Reginald Phillips

Ryan: David Paterson

Elise: Peter Chant

William: Kevin Mitchinson

Daisy: Anthony Casadio

Tabitha: Errol Noack
Bob: Marian Tomas

Malcolm: Bruno Adamczyk

Maddison: Jeffrey Rivett

Lauren: Allan Pattison

Ellen: Dennis McCormack

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.