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BADE, Kenneth Wilfred
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 17071 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | 105 Field Battery |
| Born: | Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 18 October 1938 |
| Home Town: | Toowoomba, Toowoomba, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Toowoomba Grammar School then Royal Military College, Duntroon, Australian Capitial Territory |
| Occupation: | Army Officer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, South Vietnam, 8 January 1966, aged 27 years |
| Cemetery: |
Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Grafton Clarence Valley Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Kallangur Vietnam Veterans' Place, Newhaven 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment Memorial Plaque, Port Pirie Vietnam Veterans Honour Wall, Queensland Garden of Remembrance (Pinnaroo), Qld, Seymour Vietnam Veterans Commemorative Walk Roll of Honour, Toowoomba District Servicemen Roll of Honour, Toowoomba Grammar School Vietnam War Roll of Honour, Toowoomba Roll of Honour WW2, Toowoomba War Memorial (Mothers' Memorial) |
Service History
Vietnam War Service
| 14 Sep 1965: | Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Captain, 17071, 105 Field Battery | |
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| 14 Sep 1965: | Involvement 17071 | |
| 8 Jan 1966: | Discharged Australian Army (Post WW2), Captain, 17071, 105 Field Battery, K.I.A. |
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Captain Bade was acting as an artillery forward observer when the patrol he was with entered a booby trapped area in the notorious Ho Bo Woods, near Ben Cat, Phuoc Tuy in Operation Crimp. He was killed by a mine in mid-afternoon on 8th January 1966; Age 27 - Information from Find a Grave Memorial
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