1000 FROM AUSTRALIA
Some In Ship, Some To Flv J (N Z Press Assn—Copyright) CANBERRA, May 27. Australia's total contingent of troops for South Vietnam would be about 1000 men, the Defence Minister, Senator Shane Paltridg 1 '. said today. This would include logistic support, he said. Senator Paltridge’s statement was the first official admission on the number of men involved in Australia’s offer of military aid to South Vietnam. Men of the Ist Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment left Sydney early today on board H.M.A.S. Sydney. Senator Paltridge also revealed that some men had not left in H.M.A.S. Sydney. Men not embarked would be flown to Vietnam, he said.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30762, 28 May 1965, Page 11
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