Geoffrey Ernest Hamilton VERTIGAN

VERTIGAN, Geoffrey Ernest Hamilton

Service Number: 350063
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
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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

Vietnam War Service

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

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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.