VERTIGAN, Geoffrey Ernest Hamilton
Service Number: | 350063 |
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Enlisted: | 22 September 1941 |
Last Rank: | Captain |
Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
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 | |
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5 Apr 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant Colonel, 350063 |
Vietnam War Service
24 Mar 1970: | Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Captain, 350063 |
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Add my storyBiography 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.