HAMERSLEY, Frederick George
| Service Numbers: | 51642, 54828 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Warrant Officer Class 2 |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) |
| Born: | Georgina, Western Australia, Australia, 20 July 1929 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Storeman |
| Died: | Gun Shot Wound, South Vietnam, South Vietnam, Vietnam, 30 May 1968, aged 38 years |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Memorial Headstone in Section ZP, Site 0161, Karrakatta Cemetery, Karrakatta, Perth, Western Australia, Australia |
| 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 |
Korean War Service
| 30 May 1951: | Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Corporal, 51642 | |
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| 30 May 1951: | Involvement Corporal, 51642, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR) |
Vietnam War Service
| 27 May 1965: | Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Warrant Officer Class 2, 54828 | |
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| 27 May 1965: | Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Sergeant, 54828, 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) | |
| 26 Sep 1967: | Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Warrant Officer Class 2, 54828 | |
| 26 Sep 1967: | Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Sergeant, 54828, Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) | |
| 30 May 1968: | Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Warrant Officer Class 2, 54828, Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Frederick George HAMERSLEY was born on 20th July, 1929 in Georgina, Western Australia
His parents were Astley Bertram Cornelis HAMERSLEY and Wilhelmina Mary Isobel Flora NORTH who married in 1920 in Perth, WA
Korean War Details
3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment from 30th May, 1951 to 3rd June 1952
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Vietnam service details:
1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment from 27th May, 1965 to 7th June, 1966
Australian Army Training Team, Vietnam from 26th September, 1967 to 30 May, 1968 - his last rank was listed as Warrant Officer
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Frederick died when leading a company of Montagnard troops to help a US Truck convoy which had been ambushed by North Vietnamese Forces - he was caught in a second North Vietnamese ambush only 400 years from the US Convoy.
An Australian Army spokesman said that Warrant Officer Hamersley had returned the same day from leave in Hong Kong to his base at a remote hill outpost, 30 miles south west of the provincial capital of Da Nang. He was killed by gunshot wounds in the operation in enemy convoy in Quang Nam.
Fredericks name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial , the Vietnam War Memorial in Grafton, NSW and there is a memorial headstone in the Karrakatta Cemetery in Western Australia
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His father Astley HAMERSLEY (SN516) served in WW1 in the 10th Light Horse - last rank was Lieutenant and also served in WW2 (SN W26727) he died in 1944
Fredericks brother Hugo Astley HAMERSLEY served in WW2 (SN WX16942) and was discharged in 1946.
His sister Emily Ann HAMERSLEY served in WW2 in the RAAF (SN 113583)
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