My current research project involves researching and documenting the lives of each of the 521 Australians service personnel recorded on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll as having lost their lives as a result of the Vietnam Conflict to ensure that their memory is kept alive for current and future generations.
The book will document and honour the lives of these Australian service personnel, including their lives before they entered the Australian Defence Force, their military service in Australia and Vietnam, how they lost their life and the effect that loss has had and continues to have on their family, friends and the mates they served with.
My three main reasons for writing this book are:
To ensure that their memory is kept alive for current and future generations.
To record who they were before it is too late to do so, to ensure that they do not just become a name.
To
record how their loss affected and continues to affect their families, friends and the mates they served with.
Additionally, as part of my research for my book I am visiting the final resting places of these 521 Australians who paid the ultimate sacrifice during the Vietnam Conflict and place a flag
and poppy
at their final resting place as a mark of respect.
I would like to talk to and interview anyone who served with any of these 521 Australians, especially members of their families, their friends and the mates who served with them.
Please contact me directly via
bazz662@bigpond.com
or via the contact page on this website and I will contact you in return.
Anyone interviewed can elect to be either quoted as a source of information in the book or to remain totally anonymous, that choice is their alone to make.
