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 Graham Brammer was born in Brisbane on 16 May 1944, and through necessity left school at age13 to join the workforce. He had several jobs including the PMG until he secured an apprenticeship as a floor and wall tiler. After finishing his apprenticeship he enlisted in the Army in 1966 to support the Australian government’s commitment to the war in South Vietnam under the South East Asian Treaty alliance. After two operational tours of South Vietnam in 1968 and 1971 with the 2nd Special Air Service Squadron as a patrol member and Sergeant Patrol Commander, Graham continued to serve with Special Forces as an instructor in various skills until 1976 when he was posted to the Royal Marines to complete a Mountain and Arctic Warfare Instructors Course.

On his return to Australia, he was promoted to Warrant Officer Class 2 and became the Senior Instructor of the SAS Climbing and Survival Wing. In 1980 he accepted an invitation to join the first official Australian/Nepalese mountaineering expedition led by Patrick Cullinan SC, OAM to the Nepalese Himalayas to climb the technically difficult Mt Gaurishankar.

After several years as the Wing Sergeant Major at the SAS Reinforce Wing where he planned and conducted selection courses, Graham was posted to the Directorate of Special Action Forces in Canberra on promotion to Warrant Officer Class 1. In 1988 he was posted to the North West Mobil Force in Darwin as the Regimental Sergeant Major and was awarded the OAM in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 1990 for services to military training. After accepting a commission to Captain in 1990, he was posted to the Royal Military College for one year and then to Headquarters Special Forces as a Staff Officer. In 1994 he was posted to Darwin as the OC of the Army Survival School where he served 14 months before he discharged in1995.

After answering a call in 1998 to assist with the raising of a regular Commando Unit based on 4 Bn Royal Australian Regiment, he spent 12 months as the Senior Tactics Instructor with the Commando Training Wing under his old friend Major Hans Fleer.

Since his discharge from the Regular Army, Graham wrote Uncertain Fate, a novel based on the operational experience of the Australian SAS in Vietnam; Acres of Heartache, a novel about life in Australia in the 1960s and two SiFi/Fantasy novels; Escape from Skole and Pulse of Power. Between creative efforts he remained in contact with the military in an advisory capacity and was regularly involved with the corporate sector as a facilitator on Leadership Development programmes.

Graham retired from the active workforce in July 2010. From 2010 until this day he

continues to write, and there are several completed manuscripts on his computer hard

drive and on storage devices awaiting the favour of a benevolent publisher