O'NEILL, Robert John
| Service Number: | 335113 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 January 1955 |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR) |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 5 November 1936 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Scotch College, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Army Officer, Professor, Historian , Author |
| Died: | Katoomba Hospital, Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia, 19 April 2023, aged 86 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Leura Memorial Gardens, New South Wales, Australia |
| Memorials: |
Non Warlike Service
| 1 Jan 1955: | Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2) |
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Vietnam War Service
| 12 May 1966: | Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Captain, 335113, 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR) | |
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| 12 May 1966: | Involvement 335113 |
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Joined the Australian Army in January 1955, graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon in 1958,[1] and from 1958 to 1969, served as an officer in the Regular Australian Army, during which time as an infantry captain he was Mentioned in Despatches during the Vietnam War.[2]
1 From the Branches, Duntroon Society Newsletter, April 2010.
2 Vietnam War Nominal Roll
Robert John O'Neill AO, FASSA
Former Chair of the International Academic Advisory Committee at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney,
Was Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, based in London, 1982–1987
Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford from 1987 to 2001
Since 2008 has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Blackheath History Forum
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