8530042 Corporal Ashley Craig Birt of the 6th Engineer Support Regiment, RAE, Aged 22.
Corporal Birt and two of his colleagues, Captain Bryce Duffy and Lance Corporate Luke Gavin, were gunned down by a rogue member of the Afghan National Army.
DALE BIRT will return to Australia to perform the saddest duty imaginable, delivering the body of his late brother and war zone murder victim, Ashley.
Dale Birt, who is also serving with the army in Afghanistan, shared his grief with close mate Dean Walker over a "dodgy" war zone internet connection at the weekend.
Dean said yesterday that the army had offered to bring Dale home straight away.
"But he just wants to bring his brother back," Mr Walker said. Ashley Birt, a Gympie State High graduate, was yesterday remembered by school mates, teachers, friends from hockey and people in all walks of life in the Gympie region. The ripples of grief seemed to spread throughout a community which was yesterday struggling to deal with the shock of losing a son from one of its most well liked families.
Born in 1989, Ashley Birt enlisted in the Australian Regular Army in 2007 and was allocated to the Royal Australian Engineers as a geospatial technician.
Remembered as a dedicated soldier, deeply enthusiastic about his Army career, Ashley was promoted to Lance Corporal in February and to Corporal in April, the beginning of what many predicted would be a rapid rise through the ranks.
Corporal Birt was the first Gympie local to be killed in action since two soldiers died in the Vietnam War.
Garden of Remembrance, Pinnaroo.
Cremated at Cooloola Coast Crematorium , Gympie
Cenotaph at Australian War Memorial here
He is also commemorated at the Afghanistan Avenue of Honour, Yungaburra Qld
8530042 Corporal Ashley Craig Birt of the 6th Engineer Support Regiment, RAE, Aged 22.
Corporal Birt and two of his colleagues, Captain Bryce Duffy and Lance Corporate Luke Gavin, were gunned down by a rogue member of the Afghan National Army.
DALE BIRT will return to Australia to perform the saddest duty imaginable, delivering the body of his late brother and war zone murder victim, Ashley.
Dale Birt, who is also serving with the army in Afghanistan, shared his grief with close mate Dean Walker over a "dodgy" war zone internet connection at the weekend.
Dean said yesterday that the army had offered to bring Dale home straight away.
"But he just wants to bring his brother back," Mr Walker said. Ashley Birt, a Gympie State High graduate, was yesterday remembered by school mates, teachers, friends from hockey and people in all walks of life in the Gympie region. The ripples of grief seemed to spread throughout a community which was yesterday struggling to deal with the shock of losing a son from one of its most well liked families.
Born in 1989, Ashley Birt enlisted in the Australian Regular Army in 2007 and was allocated to the Royal Australian Engineers as a geospatial technician.
Remembered as a dedicated soldier, deeply enthusiastic about his Army career, Ashley was promoted to Lance Corporal in February and to Corporal in April, the beginning of what many predicted would be a rapid rise through the ranks.
Corporal Birt was the first Gympie local to be killed in action since two soldiers died in the Vietnam War.
Garden of Remembrance, Pinnaroo.
Cremated at Cooloola Coast Crematorium , Gympie
Cenotaph at Australian War Memorial here
He is also commemorated at the Afghanistan Avenue of Honour, Yungaburra Qld
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