Douglas Edward MCEWEN

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MCEWEN, Douglas Edward

Service Numbers:	V23443, VX145459
Enlisted:	15 December 1941
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	WW2 Light Horse Derived Units - Motor Regiments / Machine Gun Regiments /Armoured Car Regiments
Born:	Sale, Victoria, Australia, 28 March 1916
Home Town:	Sale, Gippsland, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Butcher
Died:	Sale, Victoria, Australia, 30 August 1991, aged 75 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Sale Public Cemetery
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World War 2 Service

15 Dec 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V23443, WW2 Light Horse Derived Units - Motor Regiments / Machine Gun Regiments /Armoured Car Regiments
20 Jan 1944:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V23443, NT Force Details Depot - Barrow Creek NT
21 Jan 1944:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX145459
6 Mar 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX145459

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Corporal Douglas Edward McEwen (Service No:VX145459) initially enlisted in the ACMF as a Private attached to 13 Light Horse Regiment on 15 December 1941 and was appointed Farrier. He was 'in the field' at Barrow Creek in the NT on 21 January 1944 when he enlisted in the AIF and served with NT Force Details Depot as a Corporal (Butcher) until Discharge on 6 March 1946.

Born in 1916 in Sale Vctoria, Douglas was the second of six children of Albert Edward McEwen (b1890 in Palmerston, New Zealand) and Bertha Chaplin Elston (b1895 in Sale, Victoria). Albert (a Blacksmith) and Bertha marrried in 1914 in Sale, Victoria where they settled and raised their family and Albert was a Blacksmith and Butcher.

Douglas worked as a Butcher in Sale before enlisting in the Army, and in 1941 married Ida Winifred Pocknall (b1918 in Stratford, Victoria). Douglas and Ida settled in Sale where Douglas was a Butcher until the mid 1970s when he worked as a Watchman. Douglas died in 1991 and Ida in 2013.

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