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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 298" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Hanley </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Maxwell Powell </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Australian Intelligence Corps </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Corporal and T/Warrant Officer Second Class </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>43593 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>20th February 1967 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>31 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Terendak Military Cemetery,Malacca,West Malaysia </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 06.12.1935 from Adelaide, SA</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>occupation Postal Worker</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>enlisted 08.07.1955, Adelaide, SA</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>husband of Marie Kathleen Hanley</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award M.M.,Bronze Star (US)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>attached US 5 SF Group (Company C,Det A-113)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>KIA He Thanh,Quang Ngai Province,South Vietnam </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em> <span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><em>"Lance Corporal (later Corporal) Maxwell Powell (Max) Hanley, aged 22, of Morphettville, SA, Assault Pioneer Platoon, Support Company, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR). On the night of 27 July 1958, LCpl Hanley was the leader of a three man group who successfully ambushed a group of four Communist terrorists (CTs) who were attempting to pick up food supplies from a shed on a rubber plantation. In the ensuing action, three CTs were killed and a fourth escaped in what was to be known as the Mangling mill ambush. No Australians were wounded. LCpl Hanley was later awarded the Military Medal which was gazetted on 14 May 1959."</em> - Source </span></em><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><a href="https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/ELL/58/0202/MC/" target="_blank"><em>Australian War Memorial</em></a></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/m-p-hanley.33761/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/33/33761-59c255c314f2cf51dbc49e2ebba0fa17.jpg?1596831232" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/m-p-hanley-grave.33760/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/33/33760-fff777f0746574c3203d3bc67ff0ed3b.jpg?1596831176" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> </em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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