Story 57 - Withdrawing from South Vietnam
Royal Australian Corps of Signals
By Denis Hare OAM BEM
Terms Used
1ALSG = 1st
Australian Logictic Support Group
1ATF = 1st Australian Task Force
AAAGV = Australian Army Assistance Group Vietnam
AATTV = Australian Army Training Team Vietnam
ACV = Armoured Command Vehicle
(M577)
ADS = Air Delivery Service
AFV = Australian Forces Vietnam
ANZUK = Australian, New Zealand and United Kingdom
AUSTCAN = Australian Communications Army Network
ARDF = Airborne Radio Direction Finding
Comcen = Communication Centre
CP = Command Post
DCA = Defence Communication Agency (USA)
HF = High Frequency
LO = Liaison Officer
LPA = Log Periodic Antenna
MRS = Major Relay Station (Telegraph)
RASigs = Royal Australian Corps of Signals
SAS = Special Air Service
SDS = Signals Delivery Service
SIGINT = Signal Intelligence
Sig = Signal | Also Signalman (Private Soldier in the Royal
Australian Corps of Signals)
Sqn = Squadron (Company size)
Radio Relay =
A radio system for
point-to-point transmission of multichannel duplex signals
employing carrier waves in the VHF or higher band.
RR = See Radio Relay
RTA = Return to Australia
Telegraph =
Telegraph.
Communications system
in which information is transmitted over a wire
or radio through a series of electrical current pulses, usually in
the form of baudot code.
TF = Task Force (1ATF)
TG = See Telegraph
TAOR = Tactical Area of Responsibility
Tp = Troop (Platoon size)
VHF = Very High Frequency
Introduction
The story highlights the
Royal Australian Corps of Signals (RASigs) withdrawal of the
communication network from South Vietnam.
Not addressed or detailed
is the detail planning, de-installation, cleaning of equipment,
weapons and vehicles, packing, plus the problems of stores
accounting after over six years in a war zone. Unlike
the Americans, all equipment, weapons and vehicles sent to the war
zone, had to be accounted for and ideally returned to Australia.
Network Overview
The Force communication
network was the product of over six year’s piecemeal development.
The network by late 1970 was essentially based on commercial
VHF/UHF multichannel equipment triangle between Saigon, Vung Tau and
Nui Dat using telegraph relays and communication centres.
The link to Australia was high powered HF equipment of mostly
Australia design. Task Force communications used
US manufactured Telegraph, HF, VHF and Radio Relay equipment’s.
Telephone systems were US tactical switchboards using
Australian designed phones. The network, managed
exclusively by the RASigs elements, was integrated with the theatre
and worldwide systems provided by the US Army 1st Signal
Brigade and the US Defence Communication Agency (DCA).
Communication Changes (1969)
By mid-1969, the RASigs
communications in South Vietnam had developed into a very complex
network that served the Australian Force Vietnam (AFV) and included
the important high powered HF telegraph link to Australia.
The tactical elements were
owned and operated by the Task Force Signal Squadron (104 Sig Sqn)
which included a large base camp at the Nui Dat using a mixture of
tactical and fixed communication equipment. The
rear links from Nui Dat were operated by a detachment from the Force
Communication Squadron (110 Sig Sqn).
Also at Nui Dat was 547
Sig Tp with the role to provide timely Signals Intelligence (SIGINT)
to the Task Force and Detachment (Det) 152 Sig Sqn supporting the
Special Air Service (SAS) Squadron.
Nui Dat was also the
location of the Australian Communications Army Network (AUSTCAN) HF
Transmitters for the link to Australia. The
Transmitters were relocated to Nui Dat in late 1968 after an enemy
attack near the Saigon Phu Tho site during May of that year.
The AUSTCAN HF Receivers were located at Long Binh.
Photo supplied by Ian Willoughby
Saigon
HQ AFV Comcen and the Major Relay Station (MRS).
Long Binh
AUSTCAN HF Receivers
Vung Tau HQ 1ALSG Comcen, Rear links from 1ATF and the Sqn HQ and
Q
Store. Also a repeater site was located on VC Hill.
In late 1969 it became
evident that the Australian presence in South Vietnam would
eventually contract towards Vung Tau as the Americans had started
withdrawing troops from the war zone. 110
Sig Sqn also had manpower problems in Saigon with the Officers,
Senior NCO’s and junior members of the unit in widely dispersed
locations. Proper after-hours supervision could not be
exercised on the soldiers not accommodated in proper military lines.
Testing, planning and the approval for the relocation of the
Telegraph Major Relay Station (MRS) from Saigon and the AUSTCAN
Transmitter and Receiver Stations to Vung Tau was started and given.
On the 16th December,
following the withdrawal of 25,000 US troops from South Vietnam, and
plans by the US Government to withdraw another 50,000, the Prime
Minister, Sir John Gorton, advised any further substantial
reductions would include Australian forces.
Relocation
to Vung Tau (1970)
With the national rear
link receivers relocated in Vung Tau in late 1969 and the move of
the transmitters from Nui Dat to Vung Tau begun in mid-1970, only
the Saigon MRS needed to be moved to concentrate 110 Sig Sqn's major
communications facilities in Vung Tau.
Planning for the move of
the MRS was well underway in early 1970. In
September the squadron took delivery of six AN/TGC-5AX transmit
consoles and six receive/monitor consoles on loan from the US Army
Signal Corps. These were installed in the Saigon
MRS in place of the Australian equipment which was then moved to
Vung Tau. The squadron undertook the complete
change-over and installation from within its own resources and MRS
Vung Tau was activated on 30th October 1970 while the MRS
Saigon closed a few days later.
A notable feature of the
campaign was the extraordinarily willing assistance received from
the US Army and the good working relationship between the US and
Australian Signal Corps. This came through units
of US Army 1st Signal Brigade which operated five Signal
Groups throughout Vietnam and Thailand.
There were delays in
completing the transfer of the transmitters and it was not until
January 1971 that the installation was complete and operations began
from Vung Tau. The station at Nui Dat remained on
standby for another month until the last transmitter was moved and
then the horizontal log periodic antenna (LPA) was also relocated in
Vung Tau.
Photo
Right:
110 Sig Sqn Communication Equipment at
Vung Tau mid 1971
(AWM EKT_71_0790_VN)
The squadron was supported
in the upgrading of its horizontal and vertical LPA’s at Vung Tau
with a rigger team from 125 Sig Sqn. This team,
led by Capt Bill Files, had been working on antennas of 9th
ANZUK Sig Regt in Singapore and no doubt found their sojourn in
Vietnam a little different.
The Prime Minister
announces on the 22nd April 1970 that 8RAR would not be
replaced at the end of the year, some support elements will be
withdrawn from South Vietnam and the Australian Army Training Team
Vietnam (AATTV) will be increased by about 120 soldiers.
On the 12th November 1970, 8RAR left South
Vietnam, at the end of its 12 month tour and was the first 1ATF unit
not to be replaced.
110 Sig Sqn started
replacing the old telephone TCC-1 switchboard (Emu) with the two
shelter AN/MTC-1 equipment in late 1970 at Vung Tau.
However because of missing parts improvements to the
telephone systems at 1ALSG did not occur until February 1971, when
the new switchboard became operational. In the
same period the US Army loan AN/MTC-1 was replaced at Nui Dat by 104
Sig Sqn with an Australian owned AN/MTC-1 switchboard (Ebony).
On the 7th
November, the call home telephone service was ready and at 0800H,
the service was handed to the troops for use.
Use by soldiers on a reverse-charge basic at $12 for three
minutes to Australia and $13 for three minutes to New Zealand.
During 1970, 104 Sig Sqn
continued to support 1ATF, which included a number of forward
deployments and the normal problems of maintaining the
communications in and around the Task Force Nui Dat base.
The unit also mounted many TAOR patrols near the Nui Dat
base.
Photo:
104 Sig Sqn Callsign 85C SIGCEN and Radio
Relay from 110 Sig Sqn plus other
HQ 1 ATF ACV's at Courtenay Hill during Operation Overlord
June 1971.
Photo supplied by Pete Bird
547 Sig Tp
continued its SIGINT task of monitoring enemy radio transmissions
from its set room at Nui Dat and at fire support patrol bases (FSPB)
using its Armoured Command Vehicle (ACV), Callsign 85D.
It also used aircraft to fly Airborne Radio Direction Finding
(ARDF) missions.
Photo supplied by Roy Deem
The SAS Sqn
was replaced by 1 SAS Sqn in Feb 1970 which included Det 152 Sig Sqn
manpower changeover. The SAS RASigs
maintain a base station at Nui Dat for scheduled and non-scheduled
traffic while ever SAS patrols were deployed.
Communications were via small HF radios using morse code.
Photo supplied by Creagh Bramley
Beginning of the End in South Vietnam
(1971)
In January 1971 the AFV
communications were as per the following diagram.
Diagram:
Overview AFV
Communications in South Vietnam January 1971
On the 30th March 1971, Prime
Minister McMahon announces further cuts in Australian forces in
South Vietnam, including the withdrawal of the tank squadron, RAAF
Canberra bomber squadron and some Caribou transport aircraft.
Photo:
SSgt Bill Burgess from 125 Sig Sqn supervising the construction of a
25.6 metre high antenna (LPA) at 110 Sig Sqn, Vung Tau in April
1971. (AWM PJE/71/0196/VN)
On 18th August
1971 the Prime Minister announced that the force would be withdrawn.
Generally the resulting
Operation Interfuse
required to have the combat elements home by Christmas and as much
as the logistic element as was prudent.
The early hard work of
relocating all the 110 Sig Sqn facilities to Vung Tau simplified the
communication plan for the RASigs units, with the withdrawal of the
force through Vung Tau.
The plan was to maintain
the existing communications system as long as necessary and to
deactivate it piece by piece as the requirement ceased.
Perhaps not
surprisingly in August the ‘Emu’ telephone switchboard, in Vung Tau,
handled an average of 8,000 calls a day - the highest load ever.
Closing
down the Task Force Communications (1971)
By the end of September
1971, Operation South Ward
was in full swing with RASigs scaling down tactical communications
and planning to cease operations by mid-October at Nui Dat.
Detachment
152 Signal Squadron
2 SAS Sqn and Det 152 Sig
Sqn return to Australian on the 10th October 1971.
The SAS role in the Vietnam War was over.
However 104 Sig Sqn Radio Operators, Sig Pete Bird and Sig Neville
Williams, flew “phantom” helicopter SAS insertions and extractions
across Phouc Tuy Province, after the SAS return to Australia, to
cover their departure.
547 Sig Tp relocated to
the 110 Sig Sqn area at Vung Tau and commenced operations on the 1st
October with no loss of SIGINT cover or circuit time. Two
ARDF missions daily, from the Vung Tau airfield were also conducted.
A rear party remained at Nui Dat commanded by Lt Ian Bowen
with a circuit from the Troop’s ACV (Callsign 85D).
The two man rear party departed Nui Dat with HQ 1ATF on the
16th October and the 547 Sig Tp ACV was the last 1ATF
vehicle to leave Nui Dat.
104 Sig Sqn withdrew with
the assistance of 110 Sig Sqn; this was not without problems, as
many of the assets were fixed and had to be progressively replaced
by mobile assets starting some 6 weeks prior to the final evacuation
of Nui Dat. For example, 110 Sig Sqn removed the
Siemens bearers, replacing them with AN/MRC-69 Radio Relay
(tactical) equipment on the 21st September to maintain
communications from Nui Dat.
Sig Ken Gregson remembers
stripping out the Siemens bearers and recalls;
“I blew the shit out of a pair
of heavy cutters as we were stripping the place out. Yes all
power was off; well it was after the cutters were sacrificed!”
The 110 Sig Sqn detachment
was under the command of 104 Sig Sqn providing also a temporary
Comcen at Nui Dat, in a Pantech Truck, beside the 1ATF Comcen which
became operational on the 1st October 1971.
The 110 Sig Sqn detachment maintained the communications
until the last moment, closing down the Comcen at 1200H and the
Radio Relay at 1205H for the return to Vung Tau in the last 1ATF
convoy on the 16th October at 1230H.
Photo
(Left):
110 Sig Sqn temporary Comcen Pantech at Nui Dat beside the 1ATF
Comcen
in Oct 1971.
Photo supplied by Andrew Clyne
Photo (Right):
110 Sig Sqn RR Shelter (AN/MRC-69)
at 104 Sig Sqn in Oct 1971.
L/Cpl Greg Hadaway leading on the mast.
Photo supplied by Ken Gregson
The last fighting patrol
by 104 Sig Sqn was conducted in AO Kingsgrove on the 10th
September. The patrol involved nine unit members
and was commanded by Sgt Denis Boland. No contact was
made with the enemy.
The 104 Sig Sqn advance
party of nine returned to Australia on the 30th September
to prepare for the unit’s return to be co-located with 1 Sig Regt at
Ingleburn. In the advance party was the SSM, WO2 Brian
Fisher. Brian explained that the OC (Major
Tony Roberts) requested he return early, as he was the
only person in the unit that had served in 1 Sig Regt and tasked him
to keep 104 Sig Sqn as an independent unit – not a Squadron of 1 Sig
Regt. Brian managed to maintain the unit’s independency!
104 Sig Sqn deployed a
detachment to Vung Tau on the 7th October to establish
the new 1ATF CP. Capt Reinhold “Bob” Semple quickly got the team
working on the task. At the same time a VHF
retransmission detachment was deployed to VC Hill, Vung Tau.
The ‘Ebony’ telephone
switchboard AN/MTC-1 was disconnected and replaced by a SB-86/PT
switchboard on the 11th October. The
‘Ebony’ SB-86/PT was closed at 0600H on the 16th October.
Ken Mackenzie, recalls;
“Not all went as planned. Without
reference to anyone, SGT Ken Casey, the Line Sgt, took it upon
himself to attack the Main Distribution Frame with a Fire Axe,
immediately severing all communications between the 1ATF CP and the
radio bunker on Nui Dat Hill, putting the 1ATF Command Net off the
air. Frantic moves to repair the damage occurred and the TF Comd Net
was back on the air in record time.”
Photo
(Left):
104 Sig Sqn 1ATF Comcen MDF Frames
and on the photo left,
SB-86 Switchboard in 1971.
Photo supplied by Ken
Mackenzie
Photo (Right):
104 Sig Sqn Radio Bunker on Nui
Dat Hill in 1971.
Bunker is being
manned by Sig Raymond Jenkin.
Photo supplied by Ken Mackenzie
4RAR/NZ Group had been
tasked with securing part of Nui Dat with the balance of the Task
Force base being occupied by South Vietnamese forces. The bulk of
the Task Force had already been redeployed to Vung Tau or returned
to Australia, but 4RAR/NZ was reinforced with a Troop of APCs
including a section of Fire Support Vehicles, engineers, a platoon
of 155mm guns from the 5/42nd Battery (US) and helicopters to hold
Nui Dat until room could be made for them at Vung Tau by units
leaving for Australia.
A basic defensive position
was occupied, centred on Ap An Phu lines with SAS Hill fortified and
Fire Support Base Hornbill resurrected to provide defence in depth
for the Group. More than 1000 Claymore
mines were placed on the perimeter along with plenty of wire to
ensure that the VC was not tempted to throw a farewell party for the
Australians.
Luck was with the ANZAC's who were left pretty much alone apart from the odd shot taken at clearing patrols by the South Vietnamese defenders on the other side of the base.
104 Sig Sqn ACV (Callsign
85C) moved to support the 4RAR/NZ Group, on the 12th
October with two Comcen operators, Cpl Mick Tierney and Sig Rob
Drummond. The ACV used a secure VHF radio teletype link back to Vung
Tau using RT-524 radio set, secured with KW-7 teletype encryption
equipment. The secure TG link was only worked during day light
hours. Rob recalls they got no special
treatment from the grunts - having to do gun pit duties during the
night.
Sgt Michael Joseph, Sig Bob Martin, Sig Mick
Jauncey and Sig ? in the final days, were the radio detachment to
work with the 4RAR/NZ Group, maintaining the 4RAR/NZ sub-station on
the 1ATF VHF Command Net. The detachment
was also a sub-station on the VHF Command Net Secure, using the
KY-38 voice encryption equipment but because of the non-availability
of secure retransmission device (MX-9331/URC), the VC Hill
retransmission site, had to use relay procedure.
The VHF Command Net Secure
had a long range issue, in the final days, because the Deeco mast,
that housed many of the VHF Antenna’s, including the log periodic
array AS-2236/GRC, had been take down, before 104 Sig Sqn departed
Nui Dat.
at
Nui Dat in 1971.
Photo supplied by Ken Mackenzie
During the final weeks a number of radio tasks including LO, were required to be maintained or provided by the 104 Sig Sqn. They include;
Radio Detachment with
161 Recce Flt redeployed to Vung Tau Airbase on the 27th
Sept.
(Cpl Edwin Pyke, Sig Haskett and Sig
?)
(Sgt Mick Didsman, Sig Donald Ross,
Sig David Lovell and Sig Harry Sinclair)
Radio Detachment with
LO at Bearcat (RTAVF) withdrawn 7th Oct.
(Cpl ?, Sig Irvin Smith and Sig Peter
Sothman)
(Cpl
?, Sig Philip Barbary and Sig ?)
(Cpl
?, Sig Alf Marcer ?)
Radio Detachment with
LO at Long Le withdrawn 10th Nov.
(Cpl ?, Sig ?)
Radio Detachment with
LO at Bien Hoa (US Army 3 Bde, 1st Cav Div) withdrawn 10th Nov.
(LCpl
Alan Blayney, Sig Les Mankey, Sig Bob Petch and Sig Doug
Knight)
(Cpl Doug Purcell, Sig
Bruce Breslin and Sig Rod Parsons)
All the detachment
members
received a certificate from the local Mayor for their assistance
during a ARVN farewell parade
for the Australians and Americans.
Click to see Doug’s
certificate.
1ATF
completed the moved to Vung Tau as planned on the 16th
October. Sig Peter Bird remembers moving with the
HQ 1 ATF ACVs as swarms of Vietnamese moved into the area.
left by the
Australians. Photo supplied by Pete Bird
All RASigs communications
at Nui Dat, other than by the ACV (Callsign 85C) and the Radio
Detachment working with 4RAR/NZ Group were closed, equipment removed
or destroyed. No line was recovered. The operational commitment of
104 Sig Sqn passed to the Rear Troop under the command of Capt
Reinhold “Bob” Semple. The special troop had 37
OR’s, under command of 110 Sig Sqn for admin, provided the tactical
communications for 1ATF, now in Vung Tau including 4RAR/NZ Group
still at Nui Dat plus the LO’s still deployed. Many of
the 104 Sig Sqn radio operators did not arrive at Vung Tau until mid
to late Nov. In true Army fashion the 104 Sig Sqn guys
in the main body referred to the ones being left to complete the
mission in South Vietnam, as the “Pack of Bastards”.
Also on the 16th
October, the telephone switchboard (Emu) at Vung Tau was
re-designated the 1ATF switchboard and all the extensions rearranged
to meet the new requirements.
Sgt Brian Dwyer recalls
returning to Nui Dat by Helicopter in early November, to repair an
issue with the TG equipment in the ACV working with the 4RAR/NZ
Group. Sgt Michael Joseph return to Vung Tau with
Brian in the overloaded Kiowa. Both
Sergeants were veterans of two tours with 104 Sig Sqn.
Remarkably, Brian arrived in South Vietnam for his first
tour, on the 26th April 1967, before 104 Sig Sqn took
over from 103 Sig Sqn, on the 28th April.
He left South Vietnam, one of the last members of 104 Sig
Sqn in South Vietnam, on the 26th November 1971.
104 Sig Sqn main body
boarded HMAS Sydney on 6th November to sail home to its
new home in Ingleburn.
home on the 6th November 1971.
Photo supplied by Ken
Mackenzie
At the same
time 110 Sig Sqn came under command of 1ATF for admin.
It also was included in the 1ATF patrol programme.
On 7th November
the final column Troop of 3 Cavalry Regiment APC's including the 104
Sig Sqn ACV (Callsign 85C) passed through Nui Dat's gates bound for
the old Logistic Support Group's base in Vung Tau.
This ended five and half
years of deployment at Nui Dat for 104 Sig Sqn and over six years
since 103 Sig Sqn deployed to the area as the Task Force Signal
Squadron and started digging in!
Photo supplied by Pete Bird
4RAR the last Australian
infantry battalion in South Vietnam, less V and D Companies sailed
for Townsville on board HMAS Sydney on the 9th December
1971. The New Zealand V Company flew
to Singapore to rejoin the 1st Battalion, Royal New
Zealand Infantry Regiment on the 9th and 10th
of December. D Company remained at Vung Tau to
protect the last elements of AFV engaged in back loading equipment
to Australian. A fitting end to the combat role
was that 103 Sig Sqn, the first Task Force Signal Squadron in South
Vietnam, now located in Townsville, maintained a HF listening watch,
in case communications was required before HMAS Sydney anchored and
provided the communications for 4RAR disembarking.
Closing
Down Force Communications
(1971/1972)
On the 13th
December 547 Sig Tp ceased all operations and most members were
returned to Australia, just in time for Christmas with their
families.
The alternative rear link
was established in October 1971. The final
solution was a combination of submarine cable, HF radio links and a
number of radio relay systems. It was partly
under the control of the US DCA and partly under Australian control.
It was a rather marginal link, just acceptable for the low
volume of traffic expected.
The HF rear link to
Melbourne was closed formally at 0230Z 16th December.
It had been operating continuously for over 6½ years and
carried approximately one and three quarter million messages over
the longest HF circuit operating from the theatre.
Meanwhile 110 Sig Sqn,
with reduced manpower, welcomed the 20% fall in traffic because of
the hectic activities which followed in closing down many facilities
and packing equipment to be returned to Australia.
At the end of December
1971, 110 Sig Sqn reported that no new members had arrived in the
theatre and 118 Signals personal left, as follows:
104 Sig Sqn Rear Tp RTA 29
547 Sig Tp RTA 36
127 Sig Sqn provided a small detachment to help
de-commission the communication equipment. The
five man team arrived in November 1971 from Singapore and did not
leave until late February 1972. An additional
three riggers arrived also from Singapore in January 1972 to assist
in the dismounting of the Antenna Farm.
The MRS in Vung Tau was
closed on the 19th January 1972 and MRS re-opened in
Saigon - hindsight would have been handy - as the MRS at Saigon need
never have been relocated at Vung Tau!
The ‘Emu’ telephone
switchboard was cut over to an SB-86/PT and then finally closed in
February 1972. SDS continued in Vung Tau and
Saigon until near the end of February whilst the ADS, using a Kiowa
helicopter instead of the previous RAAF Caribou flight, continued
until 29th February, after the Vung Tau Area Comcen
closed 0001Z 24th Feb 1972.
The last elements of 110
Sig Sqn left Vietnam 12th March 1972 and a new era
started, but for less than a year, with the Australian Army
Assistance Group Vietnam (AAAGV) and its Signal Detachment.
4RAR D Company left Vung Tau
and returned to Australian by air on the 13th March 1972
Signal personnel manned
the AAAGV Comcen using three shifts of three (two operators and one
technician). The communications back to Australia
were very hard to maintain with problems always at sunrise and
sunset.
The detachment maintained
communications until 17th December 1972, when the
Australian circuit was closed and the detachment plus other
Australian service personnel were recalled to Australia by the new
Labor government.
Conclusion
The communication plan for
Operation Interfuse was
completed by RASigs as a team and it is a credit to all involved,
that the task was completed with no major loss of communications, as
per the plan, for the withdrawal of the Australian Forces from South
Vietnam.
1.
Pronto in South Vietnam 1962-1972 by Denis Hare2. 104 Sig Sqn War Diaries AWM95 6/2/34 to 6/2/5
3. 110 Sig Sqn War Diaries AWM95 6/3/32 to 6/3/56
4. HQ 1ATF War Diaries AWM95 1/1/92 to 1/1/102
5. 4RAR/NZ War Diaries AWM95 7/4/56 to 7/4/58
6. HQ AFV War Diaries AWM95 1/4/177 – 1/4/255
7. Notes from Andrew “Drew” Clyne 19 June 2007
8. The Story of 547 Sig Tp South Vietnam 1966-1972
9. The History of the Corps of Signals in SAS 1957-1982
10. Op Order, 3Cav Nov 1971 (85C detailed)
11. Exacts on 4RAR/NZ from http://www.hotkey.net.au/~marshalle/4RAR/anz1.html, which is based on an
article from the Australian and NZ Defender Magazine
12. Reminiscing, The Final Days (Abridged) by Ken Mackenzie.
13. Discussions and emails with Brian Fisher, Ken Mackenzie, Robert Drummond, Brian Dwyer,
Doug Purcell, Pete Bird, Nev Haskett, Keith Hunter, Nick Mazzarol, Ken Gregson and so others
not recorded during the research period.
List of those withdrawing from Nui Dat (Oct-Nov 1971)
If you have any details or corrections, please contact the
webmaster on
pronto@au104.org
110
Sig Sqn Detachment
Cpl Ray Lambert (16th
Oct)
Cpl Keith Hunter (Technician) (16th Oct)
Sig Wayne Hoffman (16th Oct)
Sig Pat Fields(16th Oct)
Sig Terry Lowe (16th Oct)
Sig Andrew Clyne (16th Oct)
Cpl Peter Doherty
Cpl Russell Soderblom
Cpl Barry Badcock
L/Cpl Graeme Chaplin
L/Cpl Robert Coventry
L/Cpl Greg Hadaway
Sig Robert Burnet
Sig Keith Beahan
Sig Greg Sands
Sig Ken Gregson (16th Oct)
Note: 110 AWM95-6-3-51 details 1 Offr and 15 OR’s at Nui Dat week ending 6 Oct. Week ending 13 Oct it was 1 Offr and 12 OR’s
Rear Party 547 Sig Tp
Lt Ian Bowen (16th Oct) (ACV 85D)
Peter Dencher (16th Oct) (ACV 85D)
Fred Mitchener (7th Oct)
Bob Watson (7th Oct)
Darly Singleton (7th Oct)
Jock Fulton (7th Oct)
104 Sig Sqn Manning
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