PAGE, Douglas James
Service Number: | 2789164 |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR) |
Born: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia , 10 April 1946 |
Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | 21 February 2021, aged 74 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
Memorials: |
Vietnam War Service
8 Feb 1969: | Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, 2789164, 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR) | |
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8 Feb 1969: | Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, 2789164 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Kearney
A National Serviceman when he deployed to South Vietnam in February 1969 with 5 RAR. Doug was a member of 3 Section, 10 Platoon, Delta Company. On Operation Quintus Thrust, the first operation of the 1969/70 Tour, he was wounded in a mine incident near Hoa Long in which the Battalion lost three members Killed-in-Action and several others wounded. Doug was medically evacuated to Australia on 26 March 1969. - Gary Townsend