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Name

Date

Bands

Notes

Hale, Claude  Alfred Dudley BEM

March 2012
Age 87

Central Command Band
4RAR Band (Vietnam)
Central Command / 4MD Band

Fomerly SA Police Band
Awarded BEM January 1966

Halpin, Brian (Tex) 

8 June 2009

Halton, Bill

3RAR (Malaysia)
RAAC Band
RAA Band (Drum major)

Hancock, Les

18 March 1994

6 Bn RMR Band (CMF)
Southern Command Band
2 COD (Instrument store)

Born in 1927
Played trombone

Harbach, Roy

2014

1RAR Band (Vietnam)

Served on bands first tour
Was medic for 5Pl BCoy

Harper, Colin AM MBE

18 January 2004

5MD Band (MD)
1MD Band (MD)
AHQ (Director of Music-Army)

Previous UK service as Bandmaster and awarded MBE.

Awarded AM 1981.

Harper, Ena

12 November 2016

Wife of Jim Harper

Harper,  James Robert (Jim/Shad) BEM

10 November 2019

AAS Apprentice Musician
1RAR Band (Malaya)
Southern Command Band (1955)
1RAR Band (Vietnam 1965 - 1966)
Armoured Corps Band (1966 - 1967)
AAB Singapore (1968 - 1969-Band SGT)
North Queensland Army Band (1972)
Band Store (Broadmeadows - 1974)
3MD Band
RAA Band - Bandmaster (Melbourne - 1980)

Enlisted 2 August 1953
Served in Malaya/Borneo 1959 - 1961
Member of Victoria Police Band (1980)
Played cornet/trumpet
Awarded BEM January 1980
Long serving committee member
and life member of the AABCA.

Harrison, Phil 20 November 2016 AAB Darwin Percussion
Harrison, Terrance Grahame  (Terry) 23 November 2018 3RAR Band
6RAR Band (Vietnam)
Townsville Area/NQAB
1 RTB Band (Band SGT)
Northern Command Band
Enlisted July 1959 14.5 Class AAS
Won Allan's Medal for music theory (1961)
Won Allan's medal for music theory (1961)
Harrop, John 1 January 2022 Southern Command Band
RMC Band
Central Command Band
Tenor horn

Hartingdon, Jim

31 August 2008

Northern Command Band

Harvey, Rose

6 January 2004

Widow of Pte Harry Harvey
Hayes, Gerry 14 May 2022 NQAB
1MD Band
Bass guitar

Haynes, Alan (Tubby)

30 March 1994   Age 64              

2RAR Band Transferred to CMF as RQMS
in Bendigo

Heapy, Neil

17 March 2011

NSW Lancer Band
Holsworthy Area Band
RAE Band (Liverpool)
Eastern Command Band
Helgesen, Keith 13 June 2023 RMC Band Former Royal Signals Band UK
Euphonium player.
Music arranger.

Henderson, Alexander, LTCOL

19 June 2012

Northern Command Band
ASM (Instructor)
Eastern Command Band (MD)
AHQ (Deputy Director)
AHQ (Director of Music-Army)
Student at Kneller Hall UK
Herbert, Jeff 20 July 2023 Northern Command Band Played cornet.

Hickey, John

2015

RAAF Central Band (BSM)

Father of Leah (Hickey) Barker

Hicks, Laurence Henry (Laurie) OBE

21 April 1997

RAAF Central Band

Original Director of RAAF Central
Band (1952-1968)
Former British Army Bandmaster
Played clarinet
Awarded OBE January 1963

Hills, Dennis John LTCOL 

2018

8RAR Band

Enlisted as National Serviceman (1966).
Reenlisted as an Army chaplain, retiring as Chap 3 (LTCOL).
First AABCA Chaplain (1999).
Cornet / flugel horn.

Hilson, Jenny 24 July 2011 DFSM (Trainee)
AAB Sydney
AAB Perth
Played French horn
Hocking, Doug 25 August 2016 Southern Command Band
4RAR Band (Borneo/Malaysia 1965-66)
Army School of Music (Instructor 1967)
RAAC Band (WO1 Bandmaster Jan 1969 – Dec 1970)
AAB Singapore (MD 1972-1973)
Army School of Music (Bandmaster Jan 1974 – Dec 1975)
Army School of Music (Senior Instructor (CAPT) Jan 1976 - Dec 1977
1MD Band (MD Jan 1978 - Jan 1981)
Played soprano cornet
Holcroft, Ken 4 March 2014 Southern Command Band
RAE Band (Kapooka)
4RAR Band (Malaysia/Borneo)
RAAC Band
NQAB
Enlisted as Trooper in Armoured Corps
Transferred to Southern Command Band as a drummer
Holland, Stan 26 March 2018

Hooker, George MBE

20 March 2002
Age 88

RAN Bands

RAN Director of Music
Awarded MBE June 1957

Hooper, Steve  ('Hoops') Warrant Officer Class One 

7 April 2019

4MD Band (1981)
1RAR Band
3MD Band
DFSM (Instructor)
RMC Band (BSM)
AAB Brisbane (BSM)
RAA Band (Brisbane) (Bandmaster)

Played drums / percussion
Transferred to the Army Reserve in 2014

Hore, Robert Henry (Bob)

December 2009

RMC Band
1RAR Band (Malaya & Vietnam)
RAA Band
RAAC Band (Drum major)
RAA Band (Drum major)
1RTB Band (Drum major)

Band Boy
Played Bb bass
Late of Singleton Heights NSW

Hore, Sylvia

12 January 2010

Widow of Bob Hore

Hussell, Ken (Pancho)

17 April 2015

AAS Apprentice Musician
Southern Command Band
OCS Portsea
RAAOC

Played cornet
Attended OCS Portsea - commissioned as an Ordnance Corps officer
Two tours of Vietnam-injured on second tour
Promoted Major
On discharge worked at Australian War Memorial in Canberra
Moved to Cowra