College updating war honour boards

Over the past two years, College Archivist Catriona Banks has been collecting names of SPC’s Old Collegians who have served in the armed forces since WWII, in order to update- honour boards in the College Chapel.

One Old Boy to recently get in touch and add his name to our records is Trenton (Trent) Prince (SPC 1985-1989 (PY1990)), pictured above in a 1989 College class photo. Trent left SPC after completing Year 11 to join the Australian armed forces. He served as a Gunner with the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces in Cambodia, and was awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross for his actions, many of which are described on the Australian War Memorial website as follows.

-Gunner Trenton Prince

As a radio operator with the United Nations operation in Cambodia, Gunner Trenton Prince met both human suffering and danger. On one occasion he came upon a local truck which had careered out of control over a cliff. Prince took charge and organised the rescue and evacuation of the severely injured passengers, gave them first aid and accompanied them to hospital. For this he was awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross.

In August 1993, Prince was with a group staffing a post on the Thai-Cambodian border when they were attacked by Khmer Rouge forces. Smashing his radios with a screwdriver to avoid them falling into Khmer Rouge hands, Prince joined his observer team in beating a strategic retreat. They could not go far as the surrounding roads had been mined, and ended up as captives of the Khmer Rouge for eight hours. Prince had kept a hand-held radio, but whenever a call came through from headquarters trying to find out what was happening, he would get a kick or a punch from a young Khmer Rouge soldier.

Whatever the temptations, the Khmer Rouge soldiers did not want to kill a group of United Nations peacekeepers in cold blood. So, in the end they allowed the group to be evacuated into Thailand by local Thai soldiers (who seemed to Prince to be acting more or less in concert with the Khmer Rouge). Two days later Thailand allowed UNTAC (United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia) to send a helicopter to pick them up.-

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Catriona would be very happy to hear from other Old Collegians whose names are not listed, so they can be added before the honour board updates are organised later this year. Catriona can be contacted on 5331 1688, or by email at cbanks@stpats.vic.edu.au

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Listed below are the names of Old Collegians who have served in the armed forces since WWII that Catriona has received so far:

Surname	Initials	SPC Start	SPC End	Where Served
Baker	B J	1962	1964 (PY1966)	Vietnam
Bassett	P R	1983	1988	Afghanistan, Iraq
Beckerath	L F	1962	1964 (PY1965)	Vietnam
Benson	M J	1957	1961 (PY1962)	Vietnam
Brisbane	W S	1958	1960	Vietnam
Cain (Cox-Sutton)	M	1971	1972 (PY1973)	East Timor, Afghanistan; Iraq
Callinan	J T	–	–	Malaya
Case	B J	1962	1964 (PY1966)	Vietnam
Cates	S H	1990	1991	Afghanistan
Costigan	D J	1961	1966	Vietnam
Crawley (Navarre)	P N	1961	1967	Vietnam
Crough	P J	1957	1962	Vietnam
Crowe	A T	1959	1963	Vietnam
Cullinan	M J	1961	1961 (PY1966)	Vietnam
Day	P	1959	1961 (PY1964)	Vietnam
Diddams	B F	1988	1989	Afghanistan
Dihm	A M	1989	1994	Iraq
Elliott	M L	1974	1979	Iraq
Every	M W	1987	1992	East Timor-
Firns	B J	1955	1960 (PY1964)	Vietnam
Flynn	A J	1951	1952 (PY1956)	Vietnam
Gallagher	J	–	–	Korea
Greer	G	1951	1955	Indonesia, Vietnam
Hanuszewicz	S-	1957	1962	Vietnam
Heenan	P D	1963	1965 (PY1966)	Vietnam
Kemp	J W	1951	1953	Vietnam
Liston	B J	1990	1995	Iraq
Long	R C	1958	1963	Vietnam
Lyons	D J	1957	1961 (PY1962)	Borneo
Mahar	D J	1961	1962 (PY1965)	Vietnam
Mahar	N F	1958	1962 (PY1963)	Vietnam
McCarthy	J J	–	–	Korea
McIntyre	I T	1962	1962	Vietnam
Moylan	F J	1952	1953	Vietnam
Nolan	H J	1938	1948	Vietnam
Nolen	B H	1947	1948 (PY1949)	Vietnam
Pardoel	P M	1982	1987	Iraq
Penny	B L	1955	1960 (PY1961)	Vietnam
Penny	R J	1957	1961 (PY1963)	Vietnam, Malaya
Prince	T J	1985	1989 (PY1990)	Cambodia
Rintoul	C B	1960	1964 (PY1965)	Vietnam
Robinson	M R	1944	1947	Malaya
Ryan	T M	1964	1968	Vietnam
Sarteschi	J	1959	1962	Vietnam
Simpson	L M	1994	1999	Afghanistan; Iraq
Slockwitch	G T	1951	1956 (PY1957)	Vietnam
Smith	K L	1958	1963	Vietnam
Smith	M J	1960	1962 (PY1963)	Vietnam
Tierney	F M	1962	1968	Vietnam
Walsh	B P	1959	1963 (PY1964)	Vietnam

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