HARRIS, Frederick Lavicount
| Service Number: | NX34662 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Tumut, New South Wales, Australia, 29 October 1912 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 13 Jul 1940: | Enlisted NX34662, 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 29 Nov 1945: | Discharged NX34662, 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by James Coleman
Born in Tumut, NSW on 29 Oct 1912, the son of Colonel Geoffrey Hamlyn Lavicount Harris MC VD & 3x MiD, the great-grandson of Major General Hamlyn Lavicount Harris Sr. of the Madras Infantry in the East India Company's Service & great-great-grandson of Colonel Sir Thomas Noel Harris KCH, who was one of only a few officers to be present at both the Battles of Leipzig & Waterloo, being WIA & losing an arm at the latter
He attested for the Second Australian Imperial Force on 13 July 1940 & was allocated as NX34662 Lieutenant with the 2/19th Infantry Battalion & promoted to Captain a month later
The Battalion fought against the Japanese during the disastrous Malaya Campaign, with most being killed or captured following the Fall of Singapore in February 1942
Fred was one of those captured & he spent the remainder of the war as a 'D' Force prisoner of the Japanese in Thailand until they were liberated in Siam at the end of the war in 1945
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