Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

Vietnam (1962-1975)

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

04/01/1944

Place of Birth

Perth, Western Australia

Address (at enlistment)

Duntroon ACT

School(s) Attended

Duntroon Public School, Canberra High School

Occupation

Soldier

Next of Kin

Charles and Nancy Ashman (parents)

Service Number

57080

Final Rank

Captain

Final Unit

3rd Cavalry Regiment, Royal Australian Armoured Corps

Ashman lived at Duntroon during the 1950s and the 1960s where his father worked as a lecturer. He attended Duntroon School (where he was school Captain in 1955) and attained his Leaving Certificate from Canberra High School in 1962 after which he entered the Royal Military College. After graduating in 1966 he was commissioned in the Royal Australian Armoured Corps and served in Vietnam in B Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment between 19 November 1969 and 12 November 1970. Ashman retired from the army with the rank of Colonel. He represented the ACT in schoolboy tennis and was a winger with the First XV at RMC.

Nominal Roll of Vietnam Veterans http://www.vietnamroll.gov.au/
ACT Electoral Rolls 1916 to 1967 http://canberraheritageportal.org/default.php
The Canberra Times - 9 December 1954, 26 January 1960, 9 January 1963, 8 April 1965