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During the late 1960s, domestic opposition to the Vietnam War and conscription grew in Australia. In 1965, a group of concerned Australian women formed the anti-conscription organisation Save Our Sons, which was established in Sydney with other branches later formed in Wollongong, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Newcastle and Adelaide. The movement ...
8 June—HMAS Sydney arrives at Vũng Tàu, South Vietnam, carrying the bulk of the Australian force. 8 November—1 RAR fights one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Viet Cong at the Battle of Gang Toi. Two servicemen, Private Richard Parker and Private Peter Gillson, are posted missing believed ...
Conscription ended in December 1972, [6] and the remaining seven men in Australian prisons for refusing conscription were freed in mid-to-late December 1972. [7] [8] 63,735 national servicemen served in the Army, of whom 15,381 were deployed to Vietnam. Approximately 200 were killed. [6]
Martin refused to register for conscription, holding an objection to the Vietnam War in particular. In late 1971 he was sentenced to one week in Adelaide Gaol as a conscientious non-complier with the National Service Act , and in February 1972 he was sentenced to eighteen months for refusing to report at Keswick Barracks .
Douglas Arthur Trathen (1 February 1916 – 19 September 1998) was an Australian Methodist minister and the Headmaster of Wolaroi College and Newington College. He is known for his opposition to the Vietnam War and Australian conscription in the 1970s. [1] [2]
Members of the 7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment in Vietnam, November 1967. Australia participated in the Vietnam War as part of a United States led-intervention to Vietnam to assist South Vietnam against North Vietnam. Australia committed 50,000 troops in the country, in which 520 were killed. The war had a deep effect on Australian ...
Vietnam, The Australian War is a 2007 non-fiction book (ISBN 9780732282370) written by Australian author and historian Paul Ham. [1] The book is a comprehensive history of the First and Second Indochinese wars, written from a predominantly Australian point of view, namely, the First Indochina War and the Vietnam War.
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