Brigadier Francis Philip "Ted" Serong, was a senior officer of the Australian Army. Born into a Roman Catholic family in 1915, Serong's opposition to communism led him to join the army, graduating fro
Colonel Serong as commanding officer AATTV, c. 1962
Officers of the 6th Division in 1944, including Serong, then a major, third from the right.
Colonel Ted Serong, CIC Australian forces in Saigon, Vietnam
Brigadier Oliver David Jackson, was a senior officer in the Australian Army, seeing service during the Second World War and the Vietnam War. After graduating from the Royal Military College, Duntroon,
Ted Serong
…other nations of the region against insurgency, as well as to destroy the Soviet Union economically. After handing over command of the AATTV to Colonel David Jackson in 1965, Serong remained in Vietnam as an advisor, seconded to the US Department of State. In 1965 he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO…
David Jackson, then a brigadier, while serving as Commander 1 ATF in South Vietnam in 1966.