Kevin Albert BOVILL
Service number: 55805
Category of service: Australian Regular Army Supplement (O) 06 August 1968 to 05 August 1980
Australian Army Reserve 17 October 1980 to 15 April 1994
Employment: Driver, Special Air Service Trooper,
Assistant Instructor
Rank on discharge: Sergeant

Postings:
1 Recruit Training Battalion 06 August 1968
Infantry Centre 15 November 1968
3 Special Air Service Squadron 22 December 1969
1 Special Air Service Squadron 18 February 1970
Special Air Service Regiment 10 December 1970
2 Special Air Squadron 11 August 1971
Special Air Service Regiment 10 November 1971
1 Recruit Training Battalion 05 November 1974
Special Air Service Support Squadron 13 January 1977
2/4 Battalion, Royal Australia Regiment 06 June 1977
5 Training Group 17 October 1980
North-West Mobile Force 28 March 1987

Operational Service/Deployment:
Vietnam 22 December 1969 to 10 December 1970
Vietnam 11 August 1971 to 11 October 1971

Attachments:
2 Military District, Personnel Depot 15 November 1976 to 12 December 1976

Honours and Awards:
Australian Active Service Medal 1945-75 with Clasp ‘VIETNAM’
Vietnam Medal
Defence Force Service Medal
Australian Defence Medal
Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Returned from Active Service Badge
Infantry Combat Badge

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=1267463&c=VIETNAM#R

Kiwi previously served in the New Zealand Army under the service number 40062 prior to his Australian Army Service
Joined the New Zealand Army on 11 January 1963 as a Regular Force Cadet. Posted to 1 Bn Dept Burnham and then to 1RNZIR at Terendak in Malaysia. Served in Borneo (1966) as an Assault Pioneer under Rata Rewiri and Leo Duggan before going to Vietnam with Victor 1 Coy (The Originals). Took discharge in March 1968. Re-entered the military and completed another 25 years of assorted soldiering. This included further service in Vietnam with the Australian Special Air Service Regiment (SASR), December 1969 to October 1971.

https://vietnamwar.govt.nz/veteran/lcpl-kevin-albert-bovill