HANNAM, Robert James
| Service Number: | 4721421 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Adelaide, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 23 February 1946 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Adelaide High School |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
Vietnam War Service
| 1 Jul 1962: | Involvement 4721421 | |
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| 1 Oct 1970: | Involvement 4721421 |
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Link to Australians at War Film Archive interview of Hannam is attached
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Lt Bob Hannam, National Serviceman 3rd Intake served in the 1st Australian Civil Affairs Unit for his whole tour (Oct 1970-Sept 1971).
Bob Hannam enrolled at Adelaide High Sschool for his Leaving Honours year in 1964, having transferred from Urrbrae Agricultural High School. He went straight into a job with the SA Department of Agriculture and a university degree. Five year later, he was taking his expertise and agricultural know-how to Vietnam, where he took a leading role in introducing artificial insemination and inoculations to improve livestock care and meat production.
A 21-minute film shot in Vietnam in December 1970 (film reference https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C274461) follows 2nd Lieutenant Robert (Bob) Hannam around from village to village advising the locals on how to raise their livestock and chickens in a hygienic way with improved fodder and vaccination to produce more valuable animals. He and his team from the 1 Australian Civil Affairs Unit and local South Vietnamese professionals organised programs for the artificial insemination of pigs for breeding and meat production.
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