LEWIS, Alfred Harold
| Service Number: | VX11842 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 March 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/31st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria, 21 February 1919 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Senile Dementia, Wynnum, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 26 November 1999, aged 80 years |
| Cemetery: |
Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 27 Mar 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Sergeant, VX11842, 2nd/31st Infantry Battalion | |
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| 14 Dec 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Sergeant, VX11842, 2nd/31st Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Gregory Lewis
Alfred Harold Lewis and Dulcie Evelyn Langford met through an intermediary, Dulcie Langford's older brother, Arthur Langford. A Queenslander, Arthur Langford was a soldier of the 2/31st Battalion, as was Alfred Lewis, who was from Victoria. This is relevant as AIF unit were state-based. In 1940, the 2/31st Battalion was formed in England from AIF personnel who had been sent to England preparatory to a German invasion. Along with the others of his Battalion, Alfred Lewis returned to Australia in 1941 as Japanese forces made their way closer to Australia. They were bivouacked at Caboolture, north of Brisbane, whereby Alfred met Arthur Langford's sister, Dulcie Langford. They were married in 1945, on 21st April, at St. Paul's Anglican Church in Vulture Street, East Brisbane. This was close to where Dulcie Langford lived, in her family home in Fisher Street, East Brisbane. Dulcie Lewis (Langford) died at the age of 73, on 9th December 2994, and Alfred Lewis dies on 26th November 1999, aged 80 years.
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