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Warrant Officer Class One Bruce (Barry) Cane
         
         
Warrant Officer Class One Bruce Cane Barry Cane joined the Australian Regular Army in May 1962 and following his training at the 1st Recruit Training Battalion, at Kapooka, he was allocated to the Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery. In December, at the completion of his DP3 training at the School of Artillery, he was posted to 105th Field Battery, 4th Field Regiment.

Barry attended both grade 1 and 2 Operator Command Post (OPCP) courses at the School and was promoted to the rank of Bombardier in 1964 as an Forward Observer’s Assistant (FO Ack). He saw operational active service with 105th Field Battery in South Vietnam, over the period September 1965 to December 1966, and on his return to Australia he was posted to the Army Apprentice School, on promotion to the rank of Sergeant, as a drill instructor.

November 1970 saw Barry posted to 12th Field Regiment, as an Operator Command Post Sergeant, and returned for a second tour of active service in South Vietnam.

In 1972 Barry was promoted to the rank of Staff Sergeant as the Battery Guide of 104th Field Battery. In May 1973 he was promoted to Warrant Officer Class Two (WO2) and posted as an Assistant Instructor-In-Gunnery (Ack IG) in 2nd Field Regiment, in Melbourne.

Barry was posted as the Battery Sergeant-Major (BSM) of 1st Field Regiment’s 101st Field Battery, at Wacol, in 1976, and in 1979 he was promoted to the rank of Warrant Officer Class One (WO1) as the Regimental Sergeant-Major (RSM) of 23rd Field Regiment in Kogarah. In 1982 he was posted as the Regimental Sergeant-Major of 1st Field Regiment.


In 1984 Barry was posted to Headquarters 1st Division as the Divisional Artillery Sergeant-Major (DASM) and then, in 1985, he was posted as the Regimental Sergeant-Major at the School of Artillery.

Barry was promoted to the rank of Captain in 1998, taking-up a position as a staff officer level 3 (SO3) at the Directorate of Artillery and in 1991 he became the SO3 of Personnel Overseas Administration. In May 1992 he retired from the Army.

In retirement Barry purchased two businesses, the Steel Shed Construction Company and the Polyethylene Company (developing box and boat trailers). However, in 2010 he sold both of these companies and he and his wife then moved-up to live in Tully. Barry looks-back on his service in the Army with very fond memories.
         
         
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
         
         
 

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