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GARRIGAN, John
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 310089 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Warrant Officer Class 2 |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) |
| Born: | Sheaham Harbour, England, 19 January 1928 |
| Home Town: | Sale, Gippsland, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Soldier |
| Died: | Accidental (drowned), South Vietnam, 27 December 1968, aged 40 years |
| Cemetery: |
Sale War Cemetery, Victoria Plot - Row B - Grave 2 Originally interred Terendak Cemetery Malaysia. Remains repatriated 2nd June 2016, Sale War Cemetery, Sale, Victoria, Australia |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Canungra - The Grove - AATTV Row of Memory, Grafton Clarence Valley Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Kallangur Vietnam Veterans' Place, Port Pirie Vietnam Veterans Honour Wall, Seymour Vietnam Veterans Commemorative Walk Roll of Honour |
Service History
Vietnam War Service
| 19 Nov 1968: | Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Warrant Officer Class 2, 310089, Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) | |
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| 19 Nov 1968: | Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Warrant Officer Class 2, 310089 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Edwards
John was serving with the AATTV at the time of his death and had only been in country 39 days.
"310089 Warrant Officer 2 John Garrigan, Australian Army Training Team Age 40, Born England. He drowned when his Armored Personnel Carrier struck a submerged object crossing the the Cua Viet River and overturned in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam on the morning of 27th December 1968. He had seven children." - SOURCE (www.findagrave.com)
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