BIZIAK, Oreste Anthony

  1. Service Details
  2. Personal Details
  3. Unit and Rank Details
  4. Commemoration
  5. Notes
  6. Sources

Service Details

Branch of Service
Army
Conflict
Vietnam (1962-1975)

Personal Details

Gender
Male
Date of Birth
11/11/1946
Place of Birth
Italy
Address (at enlistment)
Deakin ACT
School(s) Attended
St. Edmund's College, Griffith ACT
Next of Kin
Elvira and Francesco Biziak (parents), Narrabundah ACT, husband of Helen Biziak of Deakin ACT

Unit and Rank Details

Service Number
2789109
Final Rank
Corporal
Final Unit
A Section, 1st Topographical Survey Troop

Commemoration

St. Edmund's College Memorial, corner McMillan Crescent and Canberra Avenue, Griffith

Notes

Biziak was a national serviceman who served in Vietnam between 22 October 1968 and 15 October 1969. He married Helen O'Neill at St. Christopher's in Manuka on 27 September 1968. The AWM image describes Biziak as a clerk with the 1st Topographical Survey Unit at Nui Dat and shows him checking the stock of a new issue of maps.

Sources

St. Edmund's College Annual Magazine 1968
Nominal Roll of Vietnam Veterans http://www.vietnamroll.gov.au
AWM Collections : COM/69/0073/VN
The Canberra Times - 24 January 1963, 30 September 1968

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Commemorative plaque, St. Edmund's College

Commemorative plaque, St. Edmund's College

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