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Private James Guidera (Service No:W39451) served with the ACMF from 2 March 1941 to 30 June 1947 attached to Petrol Coy AASC. He then served with the Interim Army as a Private (1 July 1947 to 28 June 1948) attached to HQ WEstern Command. Private Guidera then enlisted in the regular Army and was a Corporal in Fremantle WA when he was killed in 1954.

Born in 1910 in Fremantle WA, James was the fourth of seven childen of Thomas Aloysius Guidera (b1866 in Virginia, South Australia) and Honorah Agnes Mulconray (b1878 at Emu Plains, South Australia). Thomas (a Laborer) and Honorah married in 1902 in Fremantle WA, where they settled and raised their family and Thomas worked as a Labourer until his death in 1929.

James worked as a Labourer in Fremantle and was a Miner in Kalgoorlie in 1941 when he enlisted in the ACMF. In 1945 in Fremantle WA, James married Maud Pulchera Tondut (b1923 in Geraldton, WA) and following WWII, settled in Fremantle where he served as a Corporal in the regular Army. In 1954, he and Maud had four children under nine years of age when he died as a result of injuries received in a motor vehicle accident. Maud died in 2019.