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After
joining the QAS he served as a Sergeant in the
Australian Army Reserve (ARES) unit, 31/42 Battalion,
Royal Queensland Regiment. In recent times he was
spotted wearing nine medal ribbons on his Queensland
Ambulance Service uniform. We are reliably advised that
the Regimental Sergeant Major (RSM) of his Army Reserve
unit advised Dunn in the compelling way that RSM’s tell
Sergeants, that he must not wear ribbons to medals he
did not earn. Since receiving the RSM’s “message” Dunn
has not been seen around his Army Reserve unit.
We
assume one of the reasons that Dunn has worn the fake
medal ribbons is to enhance his professional profile in
the QAS. To this end the above photograph was recently
used at an Ambulance Service Seminar attended by many
QAS Executives, Bureaucrats and Politicians. The
photograph was part of an official display at the event
Unfortunately the photograph we have has not captured
his three rows of ribbons, however we hold Statutory
Declarations detailing medal ribbons he has been
observed wearing at one time or another. The Cross of
Valour ribbon and the other three ribbons, shown in the
photograph, are sufficient to damn him as a wannabe
without Statutory Declaration evidence. Following are
all the ribbons he was wearing in the photograph
and ribbons he has been seen to wear on other occasions;
Cross
of Valour
Conspicuous Service Cross
Nursing Service Cross
Conspicuous Service Medal
Distinguished Service Medal
Australian Active Service medal (Rwanda bar and East
Timor bar)
Australian INTERFET medal
United
Nations Medal (Rwanda)
Australian Defence Medal
On
other occasion he has also worn the:
Defence Long Service Medal
United
Nations Medal (East Timor)
His
actual campaign medal entitlement is the Australian
Active Service Medal with Clasp E Timor, Australian
INTERFET medal. In addition, he
has been issued with a Returned from Active Service
Badge (RASB), he would also be entitled to wear the
Australian Defence Medal after completing his enlistment
period in the Australian Regular Army.
His
real service history is as follows:
In
1995, he joined the Australian Regular Army (ARA) and
completed three months recruit training at Kapooka in
New South Wales (NSW) he was then allocated to Royal
Australian Army Medical Corp (RAAMC)
and completed basic medical training at the RAAMC
School at Portsea in Victoria, followed by three months
at 2 Field Hospital at Enoggera, Queensland, and was
then posted to The Army Aviation Regiment at Oakey,
Queensland as a Medical Assistant.
During late December 1999 Dunn was deployed in an RAAMC
role to East Timor with B Sqn 3/4 Cavalry Regiment,
he was in that deployment for only a few months
before returning to Australia, and that is his only
operational service, and represents his only
campaign medal entitlement. He was promoted to the
rank of Sergeant in 2004 whilst serving at Lavarack
Barracks, Townsville, Queensland (Qld). He was
discharged in 2004 and
joined the Queensland Ambulance Service and then the
Army Reserve unit 31/42 Royal Queensland Regiment,
Townsville Qld, in 2007 with the rank of Sergeant. A
photograph of Dunn serving as a "Medic" with 3/4
Cavalry Regiment in Timor is shown below - he is the
man on the left wearing the "Jackie Howe" blue
singlet.
Dunn
has a story for every fake medal, for instance;
“He was awarded the Cross of Valour for saving the
life of another soldier following a fatal Armoured
Personnel Carrier (APC) accident in Townsville.”
Another
version. “He was wearing the Cross of Valour
because it belonged to his good friend who lost his
life in the APC Accident." - Our investigations
prove the person concerned was neither his friend
nor did he have a Cross of Valour. He also claims
that "Initially he
returned this medal to the Department of Defence
because it reminded him of his dead mate, but
recently had it reissued to give to his son"
“The Rwanda Clasp
on his Australian Active Service medal was earned
because in 1995 he was posted to B Squadron 3/4 Cavalry
Regiment and was located off shore on a US war ship and
therefore entitled to the Clasp”.
Dunn is not listed on the Rwanda Nominal Roll and his
“Rwanda” Service is not listed on his service record.
“Nursing
Service Cross was awarded because he alone turned a
non functioning Regimental Aid Post (RAP) at B
Squadron 3/4 Cavalry Regiment into a fully
functional RAP with his whole unit medically ready
to deploy to war if required."
The medals he keeps at his house are obviously
fakes because they have no regimental details
engraved on them. Dunn explains that:
“His
real medals are kept in his safe because real medals
are expensive”
or
“his real medals are being remounted, or in a
bank vault for safe keeping”.
There is no ending to Dunn’s confabulation, he also
claims to have served with the Special Air Service
Regiment (SASR) in Western Australia from 2000 to
2003. Dunn has said “He had to depart SASR
because of a parachuting accident which has resulted
in permanent injury”. He was never posted to,
or worked in any way as part of the SASR.
Obviously Dunn has enjoyed the kudos emanating from
his medal decorated countenance at his place of
work, however Queensland Ambulance Service will be
embarrassed when they realize that instead of a
“Rambo Ambo" in their midst they have a liar a fraud
and a wannabe on their hands.
Paramedics are trusted professionals. Dunn is an ex
military liar, fraud and wannabe who has brought
discredit to himself and the QAS. Dunn may have
been able to grossly exaggerate his military
service among his QAS colleagues and the general
public, but because of the efforts of ANZMI there is
a huge upsurge in public awareness about fake
veterans and being named and shamed on this web site
was inevitable
Having enjoyed his hours of fame, this false "Rambo
Ambo" can now enjoy being named and shamed as a liar
a fraud and a wannabe on the World Wide Web.
This is published in the
public interest, particularly that of the Vietnam
Veteran Community. All information presented here is
fact and the truth. Reports from private citizens are
supported by statements of fact and statutory
declarations. |
DUNN Gordon "Charlie"
