"fasgnadh" wrote in message
news:482bfa89$0$13946$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
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> Over the last few years we have grown accustomed to
> tory Governments acting more like Soviet apparatchiks,
> detaining and even deporting Australian citizens on entirely
> spurious grounds, but those human rights abuses pall into
> insignificance compared to the conspiracy to assassinate Normie
> Row by falsely drafting him and sending him into a war zone
> where he faced death.
>
> The last time I can recall someone attempting this was in the
> biblical story of King David, who, coveting the wife of
>
>
>
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> "HE was Australia's most famous Vietnam conscript
> but it can now be revealed that pop idol Normie
> Rowe was falsely drafted into the army.
>
> And he should never have been sent to war."
> - Herald Sun 15/5/2008
>
> "The Department of Veterans' Affairs has this week
> confirmed that Rowe's birth date - February 1, 1947
> - was never raised in the controversial ballot of
> dates that selected which 20-year-old men would be
> called up to serve.
[.....]
The way I understand it from reading Wikipedia and the official rules,
is this:
XX.08.1966 - Normie went to the UK to work.
XX.01.1967 - Normie was required to register for National service if
he was ordinarily resident in Australia.
10.03.1967 - Fifth ballot was held on 10th March and Nornie's B/date
of 1st Feb was selected.
XX.07.1967 - Returned to Australia for a working visit then back to
the UK.
XX.08.1967 - He returned from the UK (and presumably registered within
the required 14 days for men overseas)
08.09.1967 - Sixth ballot held for men born after 1st July 47 AND men
who were born before 1st July who had been overseas. Normie's B/date
of 1st Feb 47 came up.
X.02.1968 - Inducted into National Service.
15.03.1968 - Seventh ballot held. If Normie missed the 8th Sept
deadline with a good reason, then he should have been put in this
ballot where his B/date didn't come up.
AFTERWARDS: A separate ballot was supposedly held for men who had been
overseas. Normie was supposedly included in that ballot and his birth
date supposedly came up. (This extra ballot was unnecessary when the
rules already provided for inclusion in ordinary ballots if men were
born before the current date-range and were overseas).
It sounds like Normie didn't register before 8th September. If he had,
then because registrations were accepted up until the date of the
ballot, he would have been in that 8th September ballot and WOULD have
had his birth date drawn.
If he didn't register by 8th Sept AND was in in country, which he
apparently was, then he was liable under the rules to be called up as
a penalty unless a good reason was provided.. If taht happened then he
should have been in the Seventh ballot where his date didn't come up.
* I didn't check the rules to see if the special ballots for overseas
men were actually a part of the rules or not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normie_Rowe
http://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/viet_app.asp
Ray
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