Alan Donald FITZGERALD

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FITZGERALD, Alan Donald

Service Numbers:	V503592, VX147181
Enlisted:	5 November 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Lines of Communication Signals
Born:	Ararat, Victoria, Australia, 15 July 1922
Home Town:	Ararat, Ararat, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Junior Clerk (Victorian Railways)
Died:	Ararat, Victoria, Australia, 20 December 1972, aged 50 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Ararat General Cemetery
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World War 2 Service

5 Nov 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V503592, Signals Training Battalion
26 May 1943:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V503592, Lines of Communication Signals, embarked Townsville for Port Moresby on board the Canberra
26 Oct 1943:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX147181
27 Oct 1944:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Signalman, VX147181, Lines of Communication Signals, embarked Lae for Townsville on board the Taroona
1 Jan 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Signalman, VX147181, Lines of Communication Signals, embarked Townsville for Lae on board the Shawnee
4 Aug 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Signalman, VX147181, Lines of Communication Signals, embarked Lae for Townsville on board the Ormiston
22 Nov 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX147181

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Signalman Alan Donald Fitzgerald (Service Nos:V503592/VX147181) initially enlisted in the ACMF on 5 November 1942 as a Private with Australian Signals Training Battalion and then 5 Air Support Control - Trade Group Driver Mechanic. Signalman Fitzgerald served with 19th Lines of Communication (LoC) Signals (26 May 1943 - 27 October 1944 and 1 January 1945 - 4 August 1945) in Port Moresby and Lae, and was 'in the field' on 20 October 1943 when he enlisted in the AIF - 19th LoC Signals installed, maintained and operated telecommunications equipment and information systems. Signalman Fitzgerald was attached to 19th LoC Signals at Discharge on 22 November 1946.

Alan was born in Ararat, Victoria in 1922, eldest of two children of Sydney Alan Fitzgerald (b1897 in Ararat, Victoria) and Elva Victoria McKinnis (b1903 in Ararat, Victoria). Sydney (a Labourer at Dobie via Ararat) and Elva married in 1922 in Ararat, where they settled and raised their family and Sydney worked as a Labourer and Carter.

Alan worked in Ararat as a Junior Clerk with Victorian Railways before enlisting in the Army in 1942. In 1946 in Ararat he married Gwenda Sarah Rackham (b1930 in Melbourne, Victoria). The couple settled in Ararat, where they raised their family and Alan worked as a Clerk and, from early 1960 as a Cartage Contractor/Fuel Merchant. Alan died in 1972 and Gwenda died in 2013.

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