Colonel (Rtd) Rob Manton

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The Royal United Services Institute of Victoria
is pleased to present
Colonel (Rtd) Rob Manton Former Military
Advisor at the Australian Permanent Mission to
the United Nations Australia and the UN A
Defence Perspective Time 1200 to 1300. Coffee
and tea from 1130. Date 24 November
2011. Location Shedden Auditorium, Ground Floor
H Block Victoria Barracks, St Kilda Road,
Southbank, VIC, 3006 Entrance fee
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Colonel Rob Manton graduated from the Officer
Cadet School, Portsea, in 1981 and was
commissioned into the corps of the Royal
Australian Artillery. Colonel Manton has held a
range of regimental and staff appointments. In
1990 Colonel Manton was deployed as a Military
Observer with the United Nations Truce
Supervision Organisation.   Colonel Manton was
appointed as Commanding Officer 8th/12th Medium
Regiment in 2001. He was the Australian exchange
instructor at the United States Army Command and
General Staff College and on return to Australia
he was promoted to Colonel and appointed as
Commandant of the Australian Army Combat Arms
Training Centre. In May 2006, Colonel Manton
deployed to Iraq as the Assistant Chief of Staff,
Multi-National Force - Iraq, where he was awarded
a Bronze Star for meritorious performance.
Colonel Manton was appointed as the Military
Advisor at the Australian Permanent Mission to
the United Nations in 2008. In this position he
was influential in negotiating the United Nations
General Assembly acknowledgement of the need for
guidance on the protection of civilians in United
Nations peacekeeping operations during the
Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations
deliberations in 2009 and 2010. Colonel Manton
retired from the Australian Defence Force on 29th
April 2011.