Philip Hampton (Phil) Gridley ⁸⁵⁴

  General Notes:

ROSS GRIDLEY (Melbourne VIC) - I came across your ASOPA web site via a link on PNGAA's site. My late father, Philip Hampton Gridley, studied at ASOPA prior to working as a kiap and. I believe. possibly District Officer on Bougainville.
I was born in Rabaul in 1961 while my father was posted at Wakunai. I guess that puts my father at ASOPA around 1959-60. Do you know of any archives going back that far, and perhaps were any of your members also at ASOPA around that time?
I would be interested in obtaining copies of any records of my fathers training that might exist, and of course especially interested in any photographs of his class that may have survived.

The main function of ASOPA (Australian School of Pacific Administration) was to train patrol officers and education officers to work in Australia's territories. Most went on to work in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, as it then was, while others were posted to the Northern Territory.

  Noted events in his life were:

• connection. ⁸⁵⁴

Philip married Wendy Patricia Keenan, daughter of James Roy (Jim) Keenan and Martha Mustey, on 2 Feb 1960 in Melbourne, Victoria Australia. (Wendy Patricia Keenan was born on 14 Jul 1938 in Lancefield, Victoria Australia, died on 20 Feb 2019 and was buried in Noosa, Queensland Australia.)