Private David Fisher, last Vietnam Digger, returns

Herald Sun ^ | 4th October 2008

[naturalman1975]

THE remains of Australia's last missing soldier from the Vietnam War will be repatriated next week.

Private David Fisher, of the Special Air Service Regiment, fell from a rope as he was being evacuated from Vietnam by helicopter in September 1969.

His remains were found in the Cam My district in August this year.

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Pte Fisher was the last of the missing army personnel to be found in Vietnam following the recovery of the remains of three others last year.

There are still two members of the air force - Flying Officer Michael Herbert and Pilot Officer Robert Carver - who are unaccounted for.

They were crewmen aboard an RAAF Canberra bomber which disappeared in 1970.

[SandRat]

If there's a trip one way, he said,
Into battle grim for me,
Don't let them say when I am dead:
He died to save democracy;
Nor let them say: He fought to free
Enslaved nations, white or brown;
Just print these simple words for me:



He would not let his cobbers down.

[ConorMacNessa]

Welcome home and rest well, brother.



Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[ErnBatavia]

fell from a rope as he was being evacuated from Vietnam by helicopter in September 1969. His remains were found in the Cam My district in August this year.

Those sentences tell what a shithole Vietnam has been....and continues to be....for decades.

[Tainan]

""After 39 years, Pte Fisher will finally return to the care of his family."

Welcome home Pte Fisher. Welcome home.