103 Medium Battery 1975
Laurie Skinner in Vietnam
3.7 inch Mark 3 Heavy Anti Aircraft Gun - Live Firing North Head Manly
No 53 of 1974 Gun Course - School of Artillery 1974
Anti Aircraft Radar No 3 Mark 7
Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery, Memorial, Canberra ACT
25 Pounder New Guinea 1944
     
 

PROFILE - PRESIDENT

 
     


Kim in his younger days

Kim Ian McGrath is the Founding and Inaugural President of the Australian Artillery Association and was born on 28 February 1950 at Kogarah NSW and lived in Sans Souci NSW until he joined the Royal Australian Navy on 14 July 1965.   Kim then joined the National Service on 20 April 1970 then joined the Australian Regular Army on 22 April 1972 being allocated to the Royal Australian Artillery where he was allocated to Radar Location.   Kim retired from the Australian Regular Army on 19 October 1989.   He then joined the Army Reserve and again retired at the end of 1998.

Throughout Kim's career in the Australian Defence Force he was posted to the following units:

~ 1st Recruit Training Battalion
~ 131st Divisional Locating Battery
~ 106 Field Battery (Singapore)
~ Special Air Service Regiment (Cadre Course)
~ 2nd Army Recruiting Unit
~ 133rd Divisional Locating Battery
~ Languages School Point Cook
~ 23rd Field Regiment
~ 2nd Military Police Company
~ Headquarters 2nd Division
~ 113th Field Battery

Kim now resides at Kings Creek a suburb of Wauchope in NSW with his wife and two children.

 


Kim of late

     
     
A Field Battery in Vietnam - Gunner Tiffy
Sergeants from the No. 1 Queensland Volunteer Artillery
Artillery In Action At Heilly France - Circa 1918
Members of 102 (Coral) Battery in Vietnam
Gunner Claude Rubin Winduss (Second from Left) in World War 1

         
         

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