SOLOMON, Jack
| Other Name: | Solomon, Harris Gallipoli Mitchell |
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| Service Number: | NX2116 |
| Enlisted: | 21 April 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Service Corps |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia , 21 July 1915 |
| Home Town: | Five Dock, Canada Bay, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Murdered by the Japanes whilst a Prisone fo War , Ambon, Netherlands East Indies, 26 April 1945, aged 29 years |
| Cemetery: |
Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia 23. C. 4. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Leichhardt War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, NX2116 | |
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| 21 Apr 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX2116 | |
| 21 Apr 1941: | Enlisted Private, NX2116, Paddington, New South Wales | |
| 26 Apr 1945: | Involvement Private, NX2116, Australian Army Service Corps, Ambon, Member of "Gull Force" - Executed as a POW of theJapanese | |
| Date unknown: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX2116 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
SOLOMON.—April 26, 1945, at P.O.W. camp, Amboina, NX2116, Private Harris Mitchell (Jack) Solomon, dearly beloved husband and father of Eileen and John, 11 Church Street, Leichhardt, and beloved son of Emily Solomon, Dover Heights, aged 29 years.
SOLOMON.—April 26, 1945, at P.O.W. camp, Amboina, NX2116, Private H. M. (Jack) Solomon, dearly loved brother of Robert (killed in action, N.G.), Enid, and Douglas (A.I.F.). brother-in-law of Herbert Recknell and uncle of Margaret. Sadly missed.
SOLOMON.—April 26, 1945, at P.O.W. camp, Amboina, NX2116, Private H. M. (Jack) Solomon, dearly loved son-in-law and brother-in-law of A. M. Lewis, Jack, Madge and Bill, Eva and Rob, Alma and Gerald, uncle of Warren and Beverly.
Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Harris was born on 21st July, 1915 in Sydney
His parents were Percy Mitchell SOLOMON & Emily Christina Hume BOWMAKER who married in Sydney in 1909
He married Eileen Olive LEWIS in Sydney in 1938
Biography contributed by Cheryl Thompson
Ancestry Family Tree
Harris Gallipoli Mitchell (Jack) Solomon
Birth 21 JULY 1915 • Sydney, New South Wales
Death 26 APR 1945 • Ambon War Cemetery, Indonesia
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