RICHARDS, Harold
| Service Number: | N478605 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 January 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st (SA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
| Born: | Silkstone, Queensland, Australia, 22 August 1914 |
| Home Town: | Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Iron Worker |
| Died: | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 9 February 1989, aged 74 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Newcastle Memorial Park, Beresfield, New South Wales |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 26 Jan 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, N478605, 1st (SA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
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| 30 Sep 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, N478605, 1st (SA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Harold was the eldest of three children of Walter Richards (b1890 in Lancashire, England) and Lillian (Lily) May Hopton (nee Jenkins b1891 in Glamorgan, Wales) - Lily was a Widow. Walter arrived in Brisbane, QLD with his parents and siblings in December 1899 on board the Duke of Argyll. Walter - a Miner in Ipswich, QLD - married Lily in 1914 in Lambton, NSW. They initially settled in Ipswich, QLD before relocating to Newcastle where Walter was a Greengrocer and Iron Worker.
Harold was an Iron Worker in Newcastle, NSW in 1933 when he married Eva Irene Galpin (b1913 in Goulbourn, NSW) and in January 1942 he enlisted in the ACMF. He was a Private (Service No:N478605) with the VDC when he was Discharged in September 1945.
Harold and Eva lived in Newcastle, NSW where Harold was an Iron Worker until he retired in the 1980s. Harold died in 1989 and Eva in 1991.
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