Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

Vietnam (1962-1975)

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

10/07/1944

Place of Birth

Weidum, The Netherlands

Address (at enlistment)

Goyder Street, Narrabundah ACT

Occupation

Soldier

Next of Kin

Son of Robert and Sijke Bink of Goyder Street, Narrabundah ACT

Burial Place

Woden Cemetery, grave 206, Ex-Service Personnel Section

Service Number

2275420

Final Rank

Lance Corporal

Final Unit

9th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment

Died 5 November 1969 aged 25 years, killed by a mine explosion, Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam

AWM Roll of Honour Memorial Panel 6, Canberra ACT

Bink was killed by a mine explosion in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. He arrived in Australia from The Netherlands as a boy and served in Vietnam from 9 November 1968 with the Anti-tank Platoon of the 9th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment. On 5 November 1969, his unit was providing protection for a detail clearing scrub about eight miles south of Nui Dat when a bulldozer ran over a mine causing Bink's death, only five days before he was due to return to Australia. He is buried in grave 206, ex-services section, Woden Cemetery.

Nominal Roll of Vietnam Veterans http://www.vietnamroll.gov.au
AWM Collections Record : P06259.002
The Canberra Times - 28 February 1966, 7 November 1969, 8 November 1969
'500 Australians who died in Vietnam', The Australian, 18 August 1988