It is with great sadness I advise of the passing of Alan "Curly" Kirwan at 0515 this morning at his home in Esperance Western Australia after a short battle with cancer.
Alan served 24 years in the Army from 1958 to 1982. 1 RAR (Malaya 1960), Airborne platoon (Williamstown 1963), SASR (3Sqn SVN 1966), AATTV (SVN 1971), 8/9RAR (Enoggera 1976), his final posting was Land Warfare Centre
Canungra ( SI Admin Wing 1980).
I knew him when he was the CMF cadre WO in Bundaberg, then ran into him occasionally. I seem to recall he was doing his A&T course at JTC when my RMC class was there in August 1971, which was a heap of fun because there were some great characters we had known as instructors who were also "officer cadets" on the course. Despite the age differences and their previous relationships with us, we all behaved as irresponsible officer cadets should.
by Ross Eastgate