LYNCH, Harvey Rowe
| Service Numbers: | N271186, NX101753 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 May 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 2/2 Composite Anti Aircraft Regiment |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia , 29 May 1917 |
| Home Town: | Collarenebri, Walgett, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Jackeroo/Farm Hand |
| Died: | Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, 29 August 2008, aged 91 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 26 May 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sapper, N271186, General Details Depot | |
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| 11 Aug 1942: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, N271186, AMF Anti Aircraft units / Elements WW2 | |
| 12 Aug 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, NX101753 | |
| 10 Mar 1943: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Sergeant, NX101753, embarked Brisbane for Port Moresby on board the Katoomba | |
| 17 Nov 1943: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, NX101753, 2/2 Composite Anti Aircraft Regiment, emplaned Port Moresby for Townsville | |
| 23 Apr 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, NX101753 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Sergeant Harvey Rowe Lynch (Service Nos:N2826/N271186/NX101753) initially served as a Trooper with 24th Light Horse Regiment prior to enlisting in the ACMF on 26 May 1941 as a Sapper attached to General Details Depot. Lance Corporal Lynch was attached to 63 Anti Aircraft Search Light Coy on 11 August 1942 when he Discharged to enlist the following day in the AIF. Promoted to Lance Sergeant, he served in New Guinea with 73 Mobile Search Light Battery (10 March 1943 - 17 November 1943), and was promoted to Sergeant on 6 November 1943. Sergeant Lynch was described as 'A very good Instructor .... Confident and conscientious .... potential Officer type' in January 1944 (NAA), and was attached to 2/2 Australian Anti Aircraft (AA) Regiment (Comp) at Discharge on 23 April 1946.
Harvey was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1917, youngest of three children of Thomas Philip Lynch (b1871 in Eaglehawk, Victoria) and his second wife Jane Harvey Rowe (b1885 in Daylesford, Victoria). Thomas was Widower with four children when he married his sister-in-law Jane in Melbourne in 1914. Thomas started work with Victorian railways as a Messenger, and then was a Clerk in Melbourne, where he and Jane settled and raised their family.
Harvey was working as a Jackeroo/Farm Hand on Trelawney at Collarenebri in New South Wales when he enlisted in the Army. Following his Discharge, Harvey was a Grazier at Travena in Bellata, and in 1950 in Brisbane married Derres Lynette Johnson (b1924 in Warwick, QLD). Harvey and Derres settled in Bellata, where Harvey was Grazier. Following Derres' death in 1954, Harvey remarried in Sydney in 1956 to Doreen Ada Lawrence. The couple settled in Bellata, where they raised their family and Harvey was a Grazier. In the late 1960s Harvey and Doreen moved to Williams in Western Australia, where Harvey was a Grazier, returning to Sydney in the mid 1970s. Harvey died in Rockhampton QLD in 2008.
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