Marcus Fielding

Marcus Fielding was born and raised in Melbourne. He joined the Australian Regular Army in 1983 and graduated from the Royal Military College Duntroon as a Lieutenant in 1986.

In the following decades of military service Marcus held a broad range of senior appointments in Army, defence and interagency organisations in a number of locations throughout Australia and overseas.

Marcus has participated in four operational deployments. In 1992 he directed operations to clear land mines in Afghanistan. In 1995 he coordinated infrastructure construction projects in Haiti.

In 1999 and 2000 Marcus directed security operations and coordinated the repatriation of displaced persons as part of the Australian-led international force in East Timor. For his work in East Timor, he was awarded a Commendation for Distinguished Service.

In 2004 and 2005 he was the Commanding Officer of the 3rd Combat Engineer Regiment in Townsville - a unit of some 400 soldiers that formed part of the high readiness brigade of some 5,000 soldiers.

In 2008 and 2009 Marcus spent nine months in Baghdad as an ‘action officer’ in the Headquarters Multi-National Force–Iraq. He published a book of his experiences in Iraq titled Red Zone Baghdad.

Colonel Fielding transferred from full-time to part-time service with the Australian Army in 2011. He now runs his own small business in Melbourne and provides specialist advice to a range of organisations.