ASKEW, Douglas George
| Service Number: | V265762 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 December 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Footscray, Victoria, Australia, 10 December 1907 |
| Home Town: | Sale, Gippsland, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Reefton Primary School, New Zealand |
| Occupation: | Dairy Farmer |
| Died: | Sale, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, 29 December 1988, aged 81 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sale Public Cemetery |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 27 Dec 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V265762 | |
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| 5 Apr 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V265762 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Douglas George Askew (Service No:V265762) served in the ACMF from 27 December 1941 to 5 April 1944 and was attached to 4 Australian BOD at Discharge (compassionate grounds).
Doug was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1907, eldest of four children of John (Jack) George Askew (b1882 in Broomfield, Victoria) and Ellen (Nell) Seymor Chinook (b1885 in Broomfield, Victoria), Jack (a Miner) and Nell married in 1907 in Ballarat, Victoria and by 1910 had left for the Reefton goldfields in New Zealand. Nell died of the Spanish Flu in 1918 - she was pregnant, and had three young children when she died. In 1924 Doug and his two sisters (Rita and Melva) embarked from Christchurch for Melbourne on board the Moeraki. The children were separated - Doug and Melva were raised in Melbourne by a paternal Aunt.
Goug was working in Melbourne as a Bootmaker when, in 1933, he married Sylvia Rose Pearce (b1911 in Trafalgar, Victoria). By the early 1940s Doug and Sylvia had settled in Sale, where they raised their family and Doug was a Dairy Farmer. Sylvia died in 1968 and Doug in 1988.
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