Geoffrey Ernest Hamilton VERTIGAN RFD

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VERTIGAN, Geoffrey Ernest Hamilton

Service Number:	350063
Enlisted:	22 September 1941
Last Rank:	Captain
Last Unit:	HQ Australian Force Vietnam
Born:	Forth, Tasmania, Australia, 17 November 1906
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Methodist Church Minister
Died:	Natural causes, 25 August 2004, aged 97 years, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Garden of No Distant Place, March, Date 10
Memorials:

World War 2 Service

22 Sep 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant Colonel, 350063
5 Apr 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant Colonel, 350063, Australian Army Chaplains' Department

Vietnam War Service

24 Mar 1970:	Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Captain, 350063, HQ Australian Force Vietnam

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Biography contributed by Linda Neate

The Reverend Geoffrey Ernest Hamilton Vertigan served as a Minister in the Methodist (later Uniting) Church.

He was a former Chaplain General of the Methodist Churches in the Australian Military Forces during World War Two.

Geoffrey served 1957-1965 in the Belmont Uniting Church (Geelong), and he authored a book "This Temple of Grace", the history of Oxley Road Methodist Church.

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