Vietnam War Service

Veteran Details

Name	BROWN, Ronald William
Service	Royal Australian Air Force
Service Number	A218785
Date of Birth	07 Aug 1941
Place of Birth	TAREE NSW AUSTRALIA
Rank	Flight Sergeant
Mustering	Airframe Fitter
Honours	None for display

Unit History

Unit Name	Start Date	End Date
No. 37 Squadron	13 May 1967	13 May 1967
No. 37 Squadron	05 Jun 1967	05 Jun 1967
No. 37 Squadron	17 Jul 1967	17 Jul 1967
No. 37 Squadron	12 Aug 1967	13 Aug 1967
No. 37 Squadron	07 Sep 1967	07 Sep 1967
No. 37 Squadron	25 Sep 1967	25 Sep 1967
No. 37 Squadron	23 Nov 1967	23 Nov 1967
No. 37 Squadron	01 Jan 1968	01 Jan 1968
No. 37 Squadron	12 Jan 1968	12 Jan 1968
No. 37 Squadron	26 Feb 1968	26 Feb 1968
No. 37 Squadron	09 Mar 1968	09 Mar 1968
No. 37 Squadron	05 Apr 1968	05 Apr 1968
No. 37 Squadron	11 May 1968	11 May 1968
No. 37 Squadron	12 Aug 1968	12 Aug 1968
No. 37 Squadron	26 Sep 1968	27 Sep 1968
No. 37 Squadron	07 Oct 1968	07 Oct 1968
No. 37 Squadron	16 Oct 1968	16 Oct 1968
No. 37 Squadron	29 Jan 1969	29 Jan 1969
No. 37 Squadron	24 Feb 1969	24 Feb 1969
No. 37 Squadron	08 Mar 1969	08 Mar 1969
No. 37 Squadron	21 Apr 1969	21 Apr 1969
No. 37 Squadron	29 Jul 1969	29 Jul 1969
No. 37 Squadron	02 Dec 1969	02 Dec 1969
No. 37 Squadron	14 Feb 1970	14 Feb 1970
No. 37 Squadron	18 Mar 1970	18 Mar 1970
No. 37 Squadron	25 Apr 1970	25 Apr 1970
No. 37 Squadron	29 Jun 1970	29 Jun 1970
No. 37 Squadron	08 Jul 1970	08 Jul 1970
No. 37 Squadron	18 Aug 1970	18 Aug 1970
No. 37 Squadron	07 Sep 1970	07 Sep 1970
No. 37 Squadron	23 Oct 1970	23 Oct 1970
No. 37 Squadron	07 Dec 1970	07 Dec 1970
No. 37 Squadron	09 Dec 1970	09 Dec 1970
No. 37 Squadron	05 Jan 1971	05 Jan 1971
No. 37 Squadron	19 Feb 1971	19 Feb 1971
No. 37 Squadron	11 Mar 1971	11 Mar 1971
No. 37 Squadron	13 Mar 1971	13 Mar 1971
No. 37 Squadron	22 Mar 1971	22 Mar 1971
No. 37 Squadron	24 Apr 1971	24 Apr 1971
No. 37 Squadron	05 May 1971	05 May 1971
No. 37 Squadron	16 Jun 1971	16 Jun 1971
No. 37 Squadron	24 Jul 1971	24 Jul 1971
No. 37 Squadron	13 Aug 1971	13 Aug 1971
No. 37 Squadron	08 Sep 1971	08 Sep 1971
No. 37 Squadron	04 Oct 1971	04 Oct 1971
No. 37 Squadron	18 Oct 1971	18 Oct 1971
No. 37 Squadron	01 Nov 1971	01 Nov 1971
No. 37 Squadron	07 Jan 1972	07 Jan 1972
No. 37 Squadron	04 Feb 1972	04 Feb 1972

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Field	Description
Name	The individual's full name as recorded on the official record of service document. If the individual served under an alias, that information will also be displayed where known. Nicknames will not be displayed, as they are not recorded on the service record. If a woman married while enlisted, and the military authority amended the service record to her married surname, then that surname is displayed. This approach has been taken so that the displayed surname aligns with the surname recorded on the service record. In such cases, a maiden name may not have been collected.
Service	Refers to one of the three Services that form Australia's armed forces - Royal Australian Navy (RAN); Australian Army; Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).
Service Number	Service numbers are allocated by the relevant Service and, in some instances, changed during service. The Service number used in the Nominal Roll is the one held by the individual at the time of their departure from Vietnam or the date of death in Vietnam.
Unit	The parent unit or units to which an individual was allotted for duty within the defined operational area of Vietnam.
Date of Birth	The date recorded in the Service record as the date of birth.
Place of Birth	The place recorded in the Service record as the place of birth.
Service Between	During the course of Australia's involvement in the conflict, there were changes in the criteria used by the Services, and by Army in particular, to determine dates in relation to Vietnam service. This Nominal Roll uses the following criteria: Service is taken to have begun on the day of the individual's departure from their last port of call prior to arrival in the Vietnam operational area. Service is taken to have ended on the day of the individual's arrival at their first port of call after departing the Vietnam operational area. Where a veteran had multiple tours in Vietnam, a Certificate printed from the website will show in the 'Service Between' section the commencement date of the first tour and the completion date of the last tour. Ports of call used in the above criteria include those outside Australia (e.g. RAAF Butterworth in Malaysia). As a result, the dates on this website may be different to the dates of service found in some other statements of service. For those affected, the difference will be a few days, and actual time in Vietnam will not be affected. The dates on this website have no standing in any capacity whatsoever in relation to an individual's eligibility for service medals or veteran's entitlements.
Date of Death	The date of death recorded with the Office of Australian War Graves, where the death has been attributed to war service and occurred before 29 April 1975.
Place of Official Commemoration	The location where those Australians who died during the Vietnam War are officially commemorated. Many Vietnam war dead have private commemorations and are officially commemorated in an official Garden of Remembrance. Although the Office of Australian War Graves ensures the names of those privately commemorated remain legible, the location of the private commemorations are not listed here.
Rank	The rank (substantive, acting or temporary) held by the individual on either their last day in the operational area or the date of death recorded with Office of Australian War Graves.
Branch / Corps / Mustering Category / Qualification	These are Service specific terms that relate to an individual's function or speciality.
Honours	Indicates any Imperial or Australian honours (1999 End of War List) and awards conferred on an individual during the Vietnam War. Service or campaign medals are not recorded. Foreign honours and awards are also not recorded. The issuing of honours and awards and service and campaign medals is the responsibility of the Department of Defence.
National Service	Indicates National Service at the time of serving in Vietnam. The National Service Act 1964, passed on 24 November, required 20-year-old males to serve in the Army for a period of twenty-four months of continuous service (reduced to eighteen months in 1971) followed by three years in the Reserve. The Defence Act was amended in May 1965 to provide that conscripts could be obliged to serve overseas, and in March 1966 the then Prime Minister announced that National Servicemen would be sent to Vietnam to join units of the Australian Regular Army.