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PETTIT, John Gordon

Personal Details

Service Number:	13824
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Warrant Officer Class 2
Last Unit:	Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV)
Born:	Goondiwindi, Queensland, Australia, 6 June 1936
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Soldier
Died:	Killed in action , Dak Seang Camp, South Vietnam, 4 April 1970, aged 33 years
Cemetery:	Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland Holland Park, Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia. Col 12 - 21 - 156.
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, Toowoomba District Servicemen Roll of Honour, Toowoomba Roll of Honour WW2, Toowoomba War Memorial (Mothers' Memorial)

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Service History

Korean War Service

23 Dec 1955:	Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, 13824

Vietnam War Service

2 Feb 1966:	Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Warrant Officer Class 2, 13824
20 May 1968:	Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Warrant Officer Class 2, 13824
27 Jan 1970:	Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Warrant Officer Class 2, 13824
Date unknown:	Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Warrant Officer Class 2, 13824, Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV), Australian Army Training Team Operations - Vietnam, WO2 John Pettit was one of a number of AATTV advisers commanding elements of 1st Battalion 2 Corps Mobile Strike Force (Mike Force), a Monagnard unit, in the relief of an NVA siege of Dak Seang Special Forces camp when he was killed leading one of the companies.

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• Australian War Memorial - Honours and Awards
• Australian War Memorial - Indonesian Confrontation Rolls and Awards Registers
• Australian War Memorial - Malayan Emergency Rolls and Awards Registers
• Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
• Department of Veterans Affairs - Nominal Roll - Vietnam
• Mike Force, the AATTV and the relief of Dak Seang, April 1970
• Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens and Crematorium
• Trove digitised newspaper article - Awards for seven soldiers
• Trove digitised newspaper article - Wounded soldier home

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