OBITUARY: Ted Serong: a great Australian*

After a long illness, Brigadier Ted Serong, one of Australia’s most distinguished solders and former head of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam, died in Melbourne on October 1, aged 86.Brigadier Serong was Australia’s foremost jungle warfare expert from the 1950s until his retirement from the Australian Army in the mid-1960s. He was later an adviser to the US and South Vietnamese governments, and was one of the last Westerners to leave Saigon at the time of the collapse in 1975.He was a c…

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