Alan Asmussen

5 July 2022

Alan Asmussen was born in Brisbane in 1938. He went to (then) TPNG in 1960 as a Cadet Patrol Officer and was initially posted to Ihu in the Gulf District. Subsequent postings included Wapenamanda and Mt Hagen in the Western Highlands then eventually Port Moresby in the Central District.

During this period, he met and married his wife, Val, and they had two daughters, Penny and Prue.

They returned to Australia in 1974 and settled on the Gold Coast where Alan was employed by Telstra for the next 20 years and where, unfortunately, Val passed away in 2010.

Alan retired from Telstra but after several years of poor health he died on 5 July 2022.

Bruce Dunn