Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Police
- Conflict
- United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (1964-2021)
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Address (at enlistment)
- Canberra ACT
- Occupation
- Policeman
Unit and Rank Details
- Final Rank
- Constable
- Final Unit
- AFP
Notes
Abbott was a member of the 18th contingent of AFP officers sent to Cyprus as UN peacekeepers, serving for a year from 26 June 1981. In 1983 he was awarded the Royal Life Saving Society President's Citation fro Saving Life for administering mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on a man who had suffered a heart attack.
Sources
AustLII, Commemorating police in peacekeeping, Platypus: Journal of the Australian Federal Police ed.29 (1998), Article 8
The Canberra Times - 15 June 1981, 29 September 1983
ACT electoral rolls