MOLLOY, William Joseph
| Service Number: | 382847 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR) |
| Born: | Carlton, Victoria Australia , 16 July 1938 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Vehicle Accident, 13 April 1968, aged 29 years, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
Vietnam War Service
| 22 Oct 1966: | Involvement 382847 | |
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| 22 Oct 1966: | Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Captain, 382847, 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR) | |
| 1 May 1967: | Involvement 382847 |
Trove digitised Newspaper article - Strictly for the birds
"Strictly for the birds" describes the romantic antics of a couple of parachutists who kissed at 120 m.p.h., 6,000 feet above the small South Australian township of Aldinga at the week-end.
The two parachutists, Miss Catherine Williamson, 21, ol Adelaide, and Bill Molloy, 24, of Albert Park, Victoria, claim the first "free-fall kiss" in the British Common wealth.
Few will dispute the claim. Both members of the South Australian School of Parachuting, they jumped from a De Havilland aircraft at18,000 feet.
At 6,000 feet, while still free-falling, they held hands and kissed. The embrace gave piquancy to their 120 m.p.h. plunge.
At 3,000 feet they separated, pulled the ripcords of their parachutes, and floated safely to earth.
Warning that under emotional stress ripcords may be forgotten, Adelaide poet Max
Fatchen wrote:
"We must recall that men
galore,
Have fallen hard for girls
before."
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), p. 2. Retrieved December 15, 2015, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131729405
Submitted 15 December 2015 by Robert Kearney
Biography
5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment 22/10/1966- 30/04/1967 -
Headquarters, 1st Australian Task Force 01/05/1967 - 31/10/1967
A good officer and a great bloke
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