SIMONSEN made claims that he was a 2nd
Lieutenant in the Royal Australian Signal Corps and
at one time served with the Signals Directorate
known as in the Signals Corps as the Snoopy Troop.
After doing some investigation as to whether he was
an officer, he was reported to us. We have carried
out our own investigations and obtained his service
record. SIMONSEN was never an officer as can be seen
by his service record, he was a cook.
1204987 Mark Jeffrey SIMONSEN enlisted in the
Australian army on 8 January, 1974 and was posted to
the Australian Army Catering Corps at Bonegilla on
26 March 1974 and qualified as a cook on 31 July
1974.On 2 August 1974 he was posted to 3 Field
Engineer Regiment and posted again on 2 August 1976
to 8/9 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment till his
discharge 7 January 1980.
As can be seen from his service record he only held
the rank of Private as a Cook for his whole time in
the Army. He was admitted and discharged from
hospital numerous times and committed a number of
military offences as well as civil Criminal
Offences.
On 12 October 1978 he was warned by the Commanding
officer of 8/9 Battalion that unless his conduct
improved it would be recommended that he be
discharged from the army.
On 23 May 1979 his medical status was changed to
Home Only duties (meaning he could not be posted
outside of Australia) as he was unfit for undue
stress and was to be reviewed on 23 May 1982.
Over the years he has been telling people that he
was a retired 2nd Lieutenant and even
signed a document as 2nd LT retired. Only
officers who held the rank of Major and above in the
Regular Army can put the rank they held on
retirement when signing a document.
Mark Jeffrey SIMONSEN you have been over the years,
telling lies to a number of people about your
service in the army which looking at your service
record shows you had a poor record as a soldier as
well as self discipline and a lack of respect for
authority by the number of offences you have
committed.
To add to that, you bragged about being an officer,
which is an insult to all retired and serving
Officers in the Australian Defence Force.
Your lies have caught up with you and for that you
will grace out web site for the world to see and
make no doubt a lot of those people you lied to will
know the truth about you, your lack of respect for
others, lack of pride in being a member of the
Defence Force and most of all your dishonesty.
20th Jun 2012
On 4 Jun 2011 we put up the case of Mark Jeffrey
Simonsen in relation to signing a document as a
2nd Lieutenant in the Royal
Australian Signal Corps when in actual fact he
was a cook in the Australian Army. After the
case appeared on the web site we received some
emails from Simonsen as seen below.
To whom it may
concern
NOTICE TO
REMEDY
I refer to the
publication dated the 4 June 2011 that has been
placed on your website concerning malicious and
vexatious imputations about me.
Pursuant to
the provisions of the Privacy Act, Crimes Act
and the Defamation Act, I hereby advise by
notice that you are required to remedy this
publication with the immediate removal of all
material concerning me on your ANZMI website and
related linked websites.
I request that
you advise me my return email as to when this
has been actioned. In the event that I do not
hear from you within a reasonable time frame
advising me of this, I will as a result take the
matter to the attention of the relevant law
enforcement authorities and will also seek
further remedy through the courts
Yours
sincerely
Mark Simonsen
To whom it may
concern
Re: ANZMI
Website- DO NOT IGNORE - Notice to remedy
I refer to my
previous emails to you in regards to my request
for you to remedy the publication concerning me
on your website, and I am disappointed that you
have not extended to me the courtesy of a
response to date. My Notice to Remedy emails
were sent to you in accordance with the
Defamation Act 2005.
In reference
to the person that you have relied upon in
supplying information to you, I have been able
to identify who this is from the handwriting on
the purported statutory declaration that you
have published, although you have attempted to
conceal their identity, I am able to confirm
from the handwriting, that the name of the
person in question is ********** *******-. What
Mr******* has failed to mention to you is that
what he has told you is as result of his
malicious and vexatious intentions towards me in
regards to the fact that I sued him in the Civil
Courts due to him ripping me off for a
substantial amount of money as a result of a
business dealing. It should also be noted that
in these Civil Court proceedings that Mr ******
did not seem to have any qualms in making sworn
statements to the Court for the purposes of
misleading the Court, and that as a result Mr
****** was "warned" by the Court as to the
penalties for contempt of court and perjury, so
it comes as no surprise that Mr ----- was
prepared to provide you with a misleading
statutory declaration.
It is now my
intention to bring an action in the Courts
against Mr ----- for defamation and in the
process of this I will also file a Subpoena for
the relevant bodies to provide information about
your organisation including the names and
addresses of the persons behind your website. In
regards to the previous email notices that I
have sent you, I would expect that under the
circumstances you would cooperate with me
concerning the matters that I have raised, and
in regards to this should you decide to further
ignore and not respond to me, given my Notice to
Remedy to you, then you will leave me no other
alternative but to issue proceedings in the
Courts for defamation and damages against all
parties behind your website.
I would
strongly suggest that you respond to me at your
earliest attention should you wish to avoid
legal action
Yours
Sincerely
Mark Simonsen
To the
Webmaster
ANZMI website
To whom it may
concern
I refer to my
previous emails concerning my request to remedy
subject information on your website in regards
to myself. To date I have not received the
courtesy of a response and I would have expected
that under the circumstances that there would be
a level of transparency in regards to the
content that is published on your website, as
well as my right of complaint in this regard,
considering that you have never spoken to me,
and your response in dealing with such
complaints
I have
enclosed for your information a copy of the
national privacy principles under the Privacy
Act 1988 (commonwealth) in respect to individual
information.
I would
appreciate if you would respond to me in regards
to the concerns that I have raised, rather than
ignore me, otherwise I will have no other
alternative than to progress the matter further
legally.
Yours
sincerely
Mark Simonsen
We do not respond to emails like this and you
are free to take any action you wish. We will
remedy the case by adding the document you
signed.
There is one thing we need to correct and that
is you signed the document as a Lieutenant not
as a 2nd Lieutenant. One thing we
will add and maybe the Federal Police maybe
interested in this, is the copy of the document
you signed you are impersonating an officer of
the Defence Force..
Mark Simonsen it took a while to receive a copy
of the document as proof of you signing it. Here
it is now for the world to see, so you will
grace our web page for a long time to come.
SIMONSEN Mark Jeffrey
