Collection related to 2784336 Signalman Stuart Lindsay Weller, 104 Signal Squadron, and his service in Vietnam between 1967 and 1968.

Accession Number P12186.093
Collection type Photograph
Object type Transparency
Maker Weller, Stuart Lindsay
Place made Australia: Australian Capital Territory, Canberra, Belconnen
Date made c May 1967
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

Neil Kilby with Gwen Howlett at a farewell party held at the Parkwood Homestead for his friend Stuart Weller before Weller left for his National Service commitment. One of 477 colour 35mm transparencies taken or collected by 2784336 Signalman (Sig) Stuart Lindsay Weller, 104 Signal Squadron, relating to his service in Vietnam between 1967 and 1968. Of his friend, Sig Weller notes: "Neil was the son of one of the three Kilby brothers who owned Parkwood Sheep Station to the north-west of Canberra. One of its boundary fences was the ACT/NSW border and you accessed the station by going out across the Belconnen Valley, which, at the time, was sheep grazing country: no houses whatsoever. Ginninderra Falls is on Parkwood Station and the company that produces Parkwood Eggs for the ACT took their name from that property. ... Neil and Gwen married while I was doing my National SErvice commitment and I invited Neil to be the groomsman at my wedding in 1970."