Persons of interest

The 2016 Premier's ANZAC Spirit School Prize awardees at Anzac House on 15 July for the briefing session - a fine bunch!


As mentioned at the briefing you are to nominate a South Australian soldier 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 names nominated to tell their story:

• Bruce Plane (Sophie)
• Kevin 'Dasher' Wheatley (Maddisen)
• Erroll Noack (Charlotte)
• Douglas Graham Borlace (Deklan)
• John William Wheeler (Bridgette)
• David Paterson (Tayla) 
• Maxwell Powell Hanley (Talia) 
•  Hugh Carlyle (Samuel)

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.