Wesley Allen:  

And life rolls on..... I'll try to keep this short. I left St Mary's School in 1968, as my parents moved from Regent Park to Parliament Place. I went to school at Deshaye in Albert Park from 1968 to 1973, then moved on to Sheldon-Williams. With Sheldon-Williams Collegiate's 50th anniversary back in June of 2006, I had first posted a bio for anyone to read what had transpired at that time. This bio has been updated periodically, as our lives do change or evolve. I was through SW in 2000, and it appeared smaller now, but it still smelled the same. I later picked up the remaining credits to complete my Yr 12 at Leboldus High in the south end, then moved on to the Canadian Army for a career. I married Rozanne Wray in Regina back in 1991, and later left the Canadian Army at the rank of Sergeant in January 1995. We had decided to immigrate to Australia to begin a whole new life.. I had enlisted with the Australian Army (Engineers) in Sydney not long after my arrival, and after a year long of 'snail mail' banter between the two country's training commands. Considered a lateral transfer, I came in as a, Sergeant. Things sometime don't go to plan, and Rozanne and I were divorced in December 1996. I became an Australian citizen in 1997, and I am happy to have dual nationality, which is a great asset, and a true privilege to have. I later met my second wife, Nancy in north Sydney in 2000. We lived in Cronulla, near the beach in Sydney's south, until I was posted to Queensland, where I lived until July 2014, residing on Bribie Island, about 70km north east of Brisbane. At my last posting I was with an Infantry Regiment of the Australian Army. We were based out of Gallipoli Barracks in Brisbane. I was tasked with many positions within our Company, and ended up a Platoon Sergeant. About Iraq. At that time, I was with an Armoured Regiment, and volunteered to go. We ended up being hand picked into the only Australian Combat Team in the city of Baghdad, We ended up leaving the safety of Australia in August 2006. Destination Iraq (via Kuwait). We were sent right into the middle of Baghdad. Shy of some SASR elements, and a Logistics HQ, we were it. In southern Iraq, we had a Battlegrouip near Basra, but worked independent of each other. , We left Iraq at the end of March 2007.. During my time there, I was a platoon sergeant for my duration there, serving alongside a mixture of Infantry, Armoured Corps and Military Police.. It was truly an insanely dangerous place to be, and when the time came to be replaced by our reinforcements, we were all bloody happy to rotate out. So, not long a...Expand for more