| [Index] |
| Brett Stephen TOMBS (1965 - 1996) |
| SAS soldier |
| Children | Self + Spouses | Parents | Grandparents | Greatgrandparents |
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Living Living |
Brett Stephen TOMBS (1965 - 1996) + Living |
Living | Willliam TOMBS | |
| Elsie JONES | ||||
| Living | John Douglas ELWORTHY (1898 - 1942) | Arthur Ernest ELWORTHY (1866 - 1935) | ||
| Leah Christian ISAAC (1865 - 1930) | ||||
| Heather Lillian Jane CRAIG (1903 - 1995) | Alfred Nicholas CRAIG (1882 - 1970) | |||
| Ethel Lilian MCGANN ( - 1960) |
| b. 18 Feb 1965 at Te Kuiti, New Zealand |
| m. Living Living or Recently Deceased |
| d. 12 Jun 1996 at Townsville, Queensland, Australia aged 31 |
| Parents: |
| Siblings (3): |
| Children (2): |
| Events in Brett Stephen TOMBS (1965 - 1996)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| 18 Feb 1965 | Brett Stephen TOMBS was born | Te Kuiti, New Zealand | |||
| 12 Jun 1996 | 31 | Brett Stephen TOMBS died | Townsville, Queensland, Australia | Note 1 | |
| Note 1: Blackhawk helicopter crash at Townsville. |
| Personal Notes: |
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Brett Stephen was born at Te Kuiti on 18 Feb 1965. He was educated at Gunnedah and Port Macquarie where he did his HSC in 1983. After moving to Armidale with his parents, Brett tried various jobs, finally joining the Army in January 1986. He served in 5/7 RAR Holsworthy until 1988 when he became a member of the elite SAS (Special Air Service) Regiment based at Perth, WA.
As a highly trained member of the SAS, he was skilled in free fall parachuting, rock climbing and abseiling and enjoyed these activities. The family liked camping and bush-walking. Corporal Brett Tombs was 2/ic of his troop and lived at Duncraig in Western Australia where the S.A.5 unit was based. Brett had decided to leave the crack regiment to have more time with his young family and to start a university degree. He was awaiting finalisation of his papers when he was tragically killed in the Blackhawk helicopter crash at Townsville which took the lives of 18 of the unit's best men on 12 June 1996. In its leading article, the Sydney Daily Telegraph of 14 June called these men 'Tragic Heroes of Freedom' who lost their lives in the service of their nation. "We should keep that fact in mind, for we are rich in the possession of such dedicated and selfless people. As members of the military they had accepted without hesitation the highest contract of service - the willingness to lay down their lives for their country and their countrymen." "While we weep for their deaths, we will remember them forever with pride." |
| Source References: |
| 2. Type: Book, Abbr: Devon to Downunder, Title: Devon to Downunder, Auth: Bettie Elworthy, Publ: Bookbound, Date: 1997 |
| - Reference = 266 (Name, Notes) |