William Joseph HOBAN BEM

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Service Number:	15400
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	8th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (8RAR)
Born:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 19 January 1931
Home Town:	Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Soldier
Died:	Killed in Action, South Vietnam, 28 February 1970, aged 39 years
Cemetery:	Mount Gravatt Cemetery & Crematorium, Brisbane Grave Location: Portion - ANZAC 2 / Section D / Grave 242; Buried with: Yvonne Grace Hoban. Also his Official Commemoration - Memorial Location: Wall 10/Row F; AT the Queensland Garden of Remembrance (within Pinnaroo Lawn Cemetery)
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

18 Nov 1969:	Involvement Sergeant, 15400, 8th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (8RAR)
18 Nov 1969:	Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Sergeant, 15400

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