FRASER, Desmond James
| Service Numbers: | T28179, TX14464 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 December 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 6 Field Regiment AMF |
| Born: | Wynyard, Tasmania, Australia , 20 October 1922 |
| Home Town: | Ulverstone, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Burnie, Tasmania, Australia, 26 June 1993, aged 70 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Burnie Lawn Cemetery, Tasmania |
| Memorials: | Tasmania (Launceston) Garden of Remembrance |
World War 2 Service
| 15 Dec 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Gunner, T28179, 6 Field Regiment AMF | |
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| 1 May 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Gunner, T28179, 6 Field Regiment AMF | |
| 3 May 1943: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX14464 | |
| 20 Apr 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX14464 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Des was the second of eleven children of Victor Arnold Stuart Fraser (b1897 in Railton, Tasmania) and Eileen Elizabeth Barker (b1901 in Penguin, Tasmania). Victor (a Butcher's Assistant) and Eileen married in 1921 in Rocky Cape, Tasmania. They lived in Burnie, Wynyard, and Stanley where Victor worked as a Butcher. By 1936 the family had moved to Tarraleah, where Victor was a Labourer.
In 1943 Des enlisted in the Australian Army (Private; TX14464/T28179 and was attached to 1 A/L Group when he was Discharged in April 1946. In March 1946, Des was in Cairns, QLD when he married Gladys May McKinley (b1925 in Longreach, QLD).
Des and Gladys settled in Emu Bay, Tasmania where Des worked as a Boliermaker. Gladys died in May 1993 and Des in June 1993.
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