Mee was promoted to Lance Corporal on 25 July 1966, and according to his record of service remained as a Private on the pay scales with the reason given, "to give soldier a greater degree of authority in his extra Regimental duty as the Other Ranks Canteen Manager".   This Posting  Occurrence Report was signed by the Officer Commanding Headquarter Company 1 ATF on 25 July 1966.

From here his career and the stories related about service take a different twist.   The stories that have been reported to CPMH state he claims the following:

Three tours of duty in South Viet Nam

35 years of Army service

Served in Infantry, 5 Battalion the Royal Australian Regiment [5RAR] in Viet Nam

He was a Sergeant in Viet Nam with 5 RAR

He was in 11 platoon, Delta Company, 6 RAR at the Battle of Long Tan

The awards and decorations he claims [and wears] can be seen in his photograph on this site entry.  These awards are:

The Infantry Combat badge.....no entitlement   Medal of Service [Congo]....no entitlement   UN Medal [Cyprus]....no entitlement   The Australian Active Service Medal....entitled   The Viet Nam Campaign Medal....entitled   The Vietnamese Campaign Medal...entitled

CPMH has confirmed the above entitlements/non entitlements to awards.

On 20 November 1966 Mee was charged with "Improper possession of a 9mm Browning Pistol".   This charge resulted in his reduction from Lance Corporal back to Private and saw him perform 21 days field punishment with 21 days loss of pay.   From here it appears he was posted back to Sydney where he did go to 5 RAR, as an Orderly Room Clerk, not a rifleman serving in Viet Nam with the battalion.   This has been confirmed with 5 RAR.    From here he was attached to 1 Recruit Training Battalion [1RTB], Kapooka, as a Regimental Duty NCO with the rank of Temporary Corporal.   Things should have been on the up for Mee, however he chose to go AWOL from 19 to 21 August 1968 and received a severe reprimand and a fine of $40.   Did this lead to his requesting discharge from the ARA on 16 October 1968?

After discharge from the ARA, Mee enlisted in the Citizens Military Forces [CMF] for two years in 19 Royal New South Wales Regiment [RNSWR] on 17 February 1969 and was made a Temporary Sergeant with the service number of 2266955.  This was later reverted back to his Regular Army service number.   This service was terminated with his discharge on 12 August 1969.

Mee then reenlisted in the CMF from 15 September 1973 as a Temporary Corporal but was reduced to the rank of Private for going AWOL on 5 Feb 1974.

Mee finally wrote and asked for his medals for service in South Viet Nam on 18 November 1969 and stated in this letter that he had served with D & E Platoon, HQ 1 ATF while in Viet Nam.   It is duly noted that he did not serve with this unit but did receive his medals and his Returned from Active Service badge numbered 41623 on 30 January 1968.

It would appear that Henry Mee cannot resist the temptation to be in uniform and to tell stories of derring do to anyone who will listen.  He is currently on the staff of a cadet unit in South Queensland and holds the rank of Cadet Captain.    This is a community based Army cadet unit and is not affiliated with or authorised by Australian Defence cadet units.   This possibly suits the needs of Captain Henry Mee as he can wear all his medals and tell all his stories without fear of being caught out........or can he, as these pages show.

It is known that when this cadet unit parades for Anzac day Henry Mee always wears civilian clothes.   Is this because of his standing in the Greenbank R & SL  where he is a member, Welfare Officer and Vice President and if he was seen wearing all his false awards he would be quickly picked as a fraud by the genuine Veterans, especially those who have earned the right to wear the coveted ICB that Mee has on his chest.

 To sum Henry Mee up, he served in Viet Nam as a Orderly Room Clerk for his tour of duty in South Viet Nam.   He did not serve outside the wire.    The stories and unauthorised medals listed above are not indicated anywhere in his record of service [which we have] and unless Henry is prepared to complete a statutory declaration stating he is illegally wearing the medals shown in his photo and named above and is prepared to retract his fictitious stories, then the real facts will remain here on the site for eternity.  

As a genuine Veteran who has bent the truth he is entitled to make this apology which will replace this story if the Veteran community is prepared to accept it.

29 May 2004

 Henry aka “Harry” Mee returned to Viet Nam in what is believed to be October 2003. He was accompanied by his wife and the couple spent a few days in Vung Tau. 

At this time we had friends in Saigon and Vung Tau who were always on the lookout for anything unusual. One of these friends spotted what appeared to be some interesting additions to the writings on the wall at a Vung Tau Pub and forwarded photos of them to us.  Lo and behold, here’s one that did not lead to an investigation but confirms that Henry Mee was telling untruths during his "Viet Nam Revisited" trip.

 The owner of the Pub put on a party, complete with a cake, for the happy couple because they were celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary, many expats and locals gathered for the happy event.   This was 20 October 2003.

A wonderful gesture from the Pub owner but we have since discovered that Henry Mee and his wife were married in 1964, not 1963. It was not their 40^th wedding anniversary.  Information recently received indicates that Henry and Mrs Mee were married on 23 September 1959.   In October 2003, they had been married for 44 years.   Further information tells us that they did not lie to the pub owner about the fact that they had been married for this length of time but they did say that 20 October was the date of their anniversary.   They left for Saigon the following day.

 This entry below on the Pub wall could not have been written by someone other than Henry,  he was positively identified as being the Henry Mee in this site exposure.

 Henry had later claimed to have been with these units mentioned, we know he wasn’t in D&E Platoon and we know he wasn’t in 5 PL, 5RAR, 1966-67. 

An unfortunate aside to this is that Mrs. Pearl Mee went along with the 40^th anniversary story knowing full well that it wasn’t true.  

There you have it, this person even sank so low as to rip off a Pub owner in Vung Tau who has always shown a warm welcome to Veterans who visit his establishment.

This Pub owner is the same one who displayed his displeasure after catching up with Howard “H” Wilde in Saigon, see our site story on “H”. We can only hope that he doesn’t catch up with Henry in the near future.

24 November 2005

This is the villain who threatened to sue us at CPMH for "attacks" on his and his wife's integrity. What integrity? Thieves don't have any.

We must pass on a "well done" to DVA. The Department will reclaim monies that they have been handing out to Henry Mee and his wife for the past 22 years. Better late than never.
 

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