Today we remember Bryan Cullen who was Killed in Action in South Vietnam on this day in 1967
Biography of Bryan T. Cullen
Bryan Cullen was born in Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, on the 26th October 1947.
His service in Vietnam included:-
1 Australian Reinforcement Unit, from the 26th September 1967 to the 23rd October 1967
7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, from the 24th October 1967 until his death on the 27th November 1967
Bryan Cullen, a champion cyclist and trainee accountant, had served as a clerk in Battalion Headquarters and had asked to be posted to a rifle company to see action. He was posted to D Company.
… the fatal action in Vietnam …
During an attack on an enemy bunker system Private Cullen was fataly wounded by a burst of enemy machine gun fire and died on the 27th November 1967.
Official Commemoration
Garden Of Remembrance New South Wales Wall 6 – Panel G
Bryan was the eldest of 3 children. His younger brother, also Army enlisted died 10 years after Bryan from a motor cycle accident on the Anzac weekend of 1977. My parents (both deceased) never got over the death of their 2 sons and moved from Sydney about 12 months after Bryan’s death for a quieter country life.
Jill…. i only knew Bryan for a short time but his passing really affected me as he was so young and so keen….every anzac day he is in my thoughts and the price he and your family paid …. so sad