John Wilton
Australian general · Australia · On the map · Lived 1910 to 1981 · aged 70
General Sir John Gordon Noel Wilton, was a senior commander in the Australian Army.
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Command post of the 12th Battery, 2/6th Field Regiment, during the Battle of Merdjayoun, June 1941
Brigadier Wilton (centre) commanding the 28th Commonwealth Brigade in Korea, flanked by Lieutenant Generals Sir Sydney Rowell (second left) and Henry Wells (second right), in 1953
UH-1 Iroquois of No. 9 Squadron RAAF in Vietnam
Centurion tanks of the Australian 1st Armoured Regiment at Vung Tau, South Vietnam, in 1968
Lieutenant General Wilton as Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, with Group Captain Peter Raw (left) and Major General Kenneth MacKay (centre) at Vung Tau Airfield, South Vietnam, in 1966Awards
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He served as Chief of the General Staff (CGS), the Army's professional head, from 1963 until 1966, and as Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee (CCOSC), forerunner of the role of Australia's Chief of the Defence Force, from 1966 until 1970. His eight-year tenure as senior officer of first the Army and then the Australian military spanned almost the entire period of the nation's involvement in the Vietnam War.