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VALE 13163 (V16292, VX147690) WO1 CLEMENT ROY KEALY 13th December 1923 - 21st July 2019 Z Special Unit, 3 RAR, AATTV, SASR, Parachute Training School & 2 Commando Company Clem Kealy was wounded on the Kokoda Track while serving with the 2/39 Battalion in PNG during WW2. On recovering he joined Z Special Unit and operated on Timor. After WW2 Clem rejoined the army in 1950 at the still young age of 26 and saw service in Korea with 3RAR at the epic Battle of Kapyong. ARA staff who many 1 and 2 Cdo Coy men encountered in the late 1950s at the Williamstown Parachute Training Wing included Major John Church who was a platoon commander at Kapyong, and both of his WO PJIs - “Buck” Buchanan and Clem Kealy - later to join 2 Cdo Coy - who were also on Hill 355 with 3RAR. As a PJI Clem trained Mike Wells in 1957, Mike recalls, and many years later became the PTS RSM, in 1975, succeeding another former 2 Cdo Coy member, Jim Husband. In Vietnam Clem was an instructor at the Duc My WO1 Clem Kealy, OAM. whilst RSM PTS. training camp for Rangers. After his posting to 2 Commando Company at Ripponlea, Melbourne as an ARA WO1 instructor, from late 1962 to 1964 he was assigned to 5th SFGA Nung Company at Danang from 1964-1965. His second tour was as an instructor at the Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol School at Van Kiep. A member of the AATTV, he was also mentioned in dispatches. In a speech by Governor-General Major General Michael Jeffery at ‘The Team’ dinner in 2002, Jeffrey said, “ in my first posting to the SAS as a subaltern in 1959 these were the sergeants, later to serve in the Team, who trained me: Roy Weir, gentleman Jim McFadzean, D J Neville (Trees and Crocodile story), Ray Simpson (Cobber), Clem Kealy, Joe Flannery and George Chinn, to name but a few.” Clem became the RSM of the SASR and he was awarded the Order of Australia in 1975. COMMANDO NEWS ~ Edition 16 | 2019 55
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