About: Douglas Vincent (general)   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : dbkwik:resource/57M61t8UhqnTfVDn1WHt-A==, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

Major General Douglas (Tim) Vincent CB, AM, OBE (10 March 1916 – 8 October 1995) was a senior officer in the Australian Army, seeing active service during the Second World War and the Vietnam War. Graduating from the Royal Military College, Duntroon in 1938 into the Signals Corps he volunteered for service in the Second Australian Imperial Force soon after the outbreak of the Second World War and served in the Syria, Western Europe and Borneo. Later, he served as Commander, Australian Force Vietnam (COMAFV) during the Vietnam War. After a number of senior staff positions he retired in 1973. He was actively involved in defence issues in his retirement and served as a chairperson of the Returned and Services League of Australia (RSL) prior to his death.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Douglas Vincent (general)
rdfs:comment
  • Major General Douglas (Tim) Vincent CB, AM, OBE (10 March 1916 – 8 October 1995) was a senior officer in the Australian Army, seeing active service during the Second World War and the Vietnam War. Graduating from the Royal Military College, Duntroon in 1938 into the Signals Corps he volunteered for service in the Second Australian Imperial Force soon after the outbreak of the Second World War and served in the Syria, Western Europe and Borneo. Later, he served as Commander, Australian Force Vietnam (COMAFV) during the Vietnam War. After a number of senior staff positions he retired in 1973. He was actively involved in defence issues in his retirement and served as a chairperson of the Returned and Services League of Australia (RSL) prior to his death.
sameAs
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:military/pr...iPageUsesTemplate
serviceyears
  • 1935(xsd:integer)
Birth Date
  • 1916-03-10(xsd:date)
Commands
  • 1(xsd:integer)
  • Australian Army Force FARLEF
  • Australian Forces Vietnam
Branch
death place
  • Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Name
  • Douglas Vincent
Birth Place
  • Brisbane, Queensland
Awards
death date
  • 1995-10-08(xsd:date)
Rank
Battles
abstract
  • Major General Douglas (Tim) Vincent CB, AM, OBE (10 March 1916 – 8 October 1995) was a senior officer in the Australian Army, seeing active service during the Second World War and the Vietnam War. Graduating from the Royal Military College, Duntroon in 1938 into the Signals Corps he volunteered for service in the Second Australian Imperial Force soon after the outbreak of the Second World War and served in the Syria, Western Europe and Borneo. Later, he served as Commander, Australian Force Vietnam (COMAFV) during the Vietnam War. After a number of senior staff positions he retired in 1973. He was actively involved in defence issues in his retirement and served as a chairperson of the Returned and Services League of Australia (RSL) prior to his death.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software