John BRESSINGTON

BRESSINGTON, John

Service Number: 218583
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Lance Corporal
Last Unit: 8th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (8RAR)
Born: Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia, 29 November 1946
Home Town: Hurstville, Kogarah, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Soldier
Died: Booby trap, South Vietnam, 6 March 1970, aged 23 years
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
Memorials: Adelaide Pathway of Honour - 8th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Grafton Clarence Valley Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Kallangur Vietnam Veterans' Place, Port Pirie Vietnam Veterans Honour Wall, Seymour Vietnam Veterans Commemorative Walk Roll of Honour
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Vietnam War Service

17 Nov 1969: Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Lance Corporal, 218583, 8th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (8RAR)
17 Nov 1969: Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Lance Corporal, 218583
10 Feb 1970: Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Lance Corporal, 218583, 8th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (8RAR), Operation Hammersley , Mine incident - one of those which caused most of 8 RAR's casualties on Operation Hammersley, in the last few days of the operation.

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Biography

218583 Lance Corporal John Bressington
8th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
Bressington was promoted in the field only days before a VC booby trap killed him in an action in Phuoc Tuy on 6th March 1970. Buried at The Keith Payne VC Hostel Memorial Evans Road Toukley NSW
Age 23.